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US 10,092,608 B2Granted
Reducing conjugative plasmids in bacteria
AssigneeGangaGen, Inc.
InventorsC. B. Appaiah, Jayasheela Manur, Bharathi Sriram
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Abstract
The present invention provides methods and compositions to reduce prevalence of plasmids in microbial colonies, including infections, and includes therapeutic compositions, methods for treatment of infections, and methods for identifying additional such compositions. Means are provided to reduce the copy numbers of antibiotic resistance genes, and to confer phage binding to cells lacking receptors for those phage.
Claims9
A method for reducing the number of a recipient bacterial population comprising the steps of:
- (a) transferring a conjugative plasmid from a donor bacterial population to the recipient bacterial population, wherein the conjugative plasmid is selected from the group consisting of Inc group N, P, W, D, M, X, P1, U, C, or J;
- wherein the transferring comprises contacting the donor bacterial population with the recipient bacterial population, and wherein the recipient bacterial population is not susceptible to binding by a phage until the recipient bacterial population expresses a phage receptor expressed by the conjugative plasmid;
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- (b) contacting the recipient bacterial population with the phage that binds to the phage receptor, wherein said contacting localizes the phage to recipient bacteria expressing the phage receptor,
- thereby reducing the number of the recipient bacterial population.
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