Primary Recipient

TEXAS A & M RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Amount

$139,113.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

The focus of this proposal is on the mechanism of host lysis by bacteriophage. Building on recent progress, it is proposed to investigate the biochemical and genetic properties of holins, smallphage-encoded membrane proteins that act as the timers of phag