๐Ÿ”ฌ Filamentous Phage

A phage that is long and thin in morphology.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

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About this entry: Filamentous Phage is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

phage.org/terms/filamentous_phage.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Filamentous Phage: A phage that is long and thin in morphology.

Discussion

<p>Filamentous phages are mostly or entirely non-bactericidal, though can be modified genetically – that is, via genetic engineering – to instead kill their hosts (resulting, if this occurs prior to phage Productive infection">production, in an abortive infection). More typically, from a biotechnology perspective, filamentous phages instead are employed in phage display and/or biopanning where foreign+genes" class="bap-term">foreign genes are Gene cloning">cloned into especially phage M13 capsid proteins.

In addition to phage M13, biology" class="bap-term">filamentous phages include…

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org  ·  10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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