Phages

Bacteriophages, or phages, are bacterias killers’ viruses.

Highly specific, by targeting precisely some strains, phages are the most abundant biological entities on Earth.

Phages can be divided in two main groups

Lysogenic Phages

Lysogenic phages own the capacity to integrate their host’s genome. Moreovre, while not killing the bacteria, those phages can carry some antibitioc resistance genes or even toxins genes, which could be expressed by the bacteria after the integration. For this reasons SyntBioLab never use lysogenic phages in their solution.

Lytic Phages

Lytics phages can’t integrate their host genome. When the bacteria is infected, their only one end : the host’s death. When the phage inject his genetic material in the cell, the virus takes control of its prey and hijack the bacteria’s metabolism to replicate himself. The multiplication of the viruses ends with the lysis of the cell, and release a high number of new viruses avalaible to infect new hosts. All the solution provided by SyntBioLab is using lytic bacteriophages.

This viruses’ mulitplication is the key of all the SyntBioLab’s solutions. By replicate on their targets, phages give an increasing and proportionnal response to destroy only their targets. Without their target, phages stay in their environment, ready to act.

SyntBioLab Inc is a bioengineering company that develops alternative antimicrobials against pathogenic bacteria affecting feedstock.

Phages

Phages

Phages

Lysogenic Phages

Lytic Phages

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