Enzybiotics begins with four chapters that review the potential applications, possible advantages, and phylogeny of enzybiotics. Next, the book explores:

• A new approach to controlling infections using Gram-negative bacteria
• Bacteriophage holins and their membrane-disrupting activity
• Anti-staphylococcal lytic enzymes
• Membrane-targeted enzybiotics
• Design of phage cocktails for therapy from a host-range point of view
• Novel methods to identify new enzybiotics
• Genetically modified phages that deliver suicidal genes to target bacteria

Contents

1. Enzybiotics and their potential applications in medicine
2. Advantages and disadvantages in the use of antibiotics or phages as therapeutic agents
3. Enzybiotics as selective killers of target bacteria
4. Phylogenty of enzybiotics
5. Bacteriophage lysins: The ultimate enzybiotic
6. Bacteriophage holins and their membrane disrupting activity
7. Anti-staphylococcal lytic enzymes
8. Membrane-targeted enzybiotics
9. Design of phage cocktails for therapy from a host range point of view
10. Identifying phage lytic enzymes: past, present, and future
11. Use of genetically modified phages to deliver suicidal genees to target bacteria

Index

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