How a germ catches a virus

Bacteriophages – short phages – represent a group of small viruses that infect bacteria and are able to alter or destroy them. That is why their name can be translated as bacteria-eater. In order to infect a bacterium, a phage has to first recognize structures on the bacterial cell wall and adhere to it. Under the leadership of Professor Thilo Stehle, Cengiz Koç and other coworkers of the Collaborative Research Center 766 (The Bacterial Cell Envelope) at the University of T&uu