PHAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phage mean? 

• PHAGE (noun)
  The noun PHAGE has 1 sense:

1. a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria

  Familiarity information: PHAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bacteriophage; phage

Context example:

phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria

Hypernyms ("phage" is a kind of...):

virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phage"):

coliphage (a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli)

typhoid bacteriophage (a bacteriophage specific for the bacterium Salmonella typhi)

 Context examples 

CRE is a homotetramer when bound to DNA and belongs to the phage integrase family.

(CRE Recombinase, NCI Thesaurus)

It is based on the cloning of DNA within a phage coat protein gene so that the resulting protein is expressed as a fusion expressed on the surface of the phage.

(Phage Display, NCI Thesaurus)

Tailed phage, isolated from E. coli.

(Bacteriophage T4, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Additionally, this phage is used in molecular biotechnology as a cloning vector for eukaryotic DNA.

(Bacteriophage P1, NCI Thesaurus)

It infects E. coli and is the best known of the T-even phages.

(Bacteriophage T4, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase, oxidase and urease positive, reduces nitrates, produces hydrogen sulfide, grows in thionine, but not basic fuchsin, and is positive for Weybridge phage lysis, but negative for Tiblisi phage lysis.

(Brucella suis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, reduces nitrates, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, positive for catalase, oxidase and urease, does not grow in thionine and may or may not grow in basic fuchsin, and is negative for Tiblisi and Weybridge phage lysis.

(Brucella canis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, reduces nitrates, produces hydrogen sulfide, is positive for catalase, oxidase and urease, grows in basic fuchsin but not thionine, and is positive for Tiblisi and Weybridge phage lysis.

(Brucella abortus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, spore forming, and catalase positive, hydrolyzes casein, starch and gelatin, reduces nitrate, is penicillin susceptible but cephalosporin resistant, gamma phage sensitive, has absent or delayed hemolysis and the capsule can be visualized using M'Faydean's stain.

(Bacillus anthracis, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, catalase, oxidase and urease positive, reduces nitrates, does not produce hydrogen sulfide, grows in both basic fuchsin and thionine, and is negative for Tiblisi and Weybridge phage lysis.

(Brucella melitensis, NCI Thesaurus)