Guide Branched Lateral Tail Fiber Organization in T5-Like Bacteriophages
We were looking for phages generating a stable fiber with specificity to the E. coli O87 type O-antigen that allows the phage to grow on E. coli HS3-104 host cells.
Guide Structure of the putative long tail fiber receptor-binding tip of a
The structure resembles the receptor-binding tip from the bacteriophage T4 long tail fiber yet showing marked differences in its domain organization, size, sequence identity and metal binding
Guide Architecture of the bacteriophage lambda tail: Structure
Bacteriophage lambda is an excellent model system to study the tail architecture of bacteriophages. Wang et al. present the cryo-EM structures of the components of the bacteriophage
Guide Investigation of the Tail Fibres and Tail Fibre Assembly Proteins
Abstract The tail fibres of long-tailed phages are complex elongated protein assemblies capable of specific recognition of bacteria during the first step of viral infection. Correct assembly of these
Guide RBPseg: Toward a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas
Here, we introduce RBPseg, a method that combines monomeric ESMFold predictions with a structural- based domain identification approach, to divide tail fiber sequences into
Guide The small genome, virulent, non-contractile tailed bacteriophages that
The phage lambda gene J protein (CFP) forms the central fiber at the tail''s distal tip that binds lambda''s outer membrane protein receptor, LamB (Clement et al., 1983); J protein may also
Guide Bacteriophage T4 long tail fiber domains
In this review, we discuss what is known about the detailed structure and function of the different long tail fiber domains. Partial crystal structures of gp34 and gp37 have revealed the presence of new
Guide Phage tail fibre assembly proteins employ a modular structure to drive
Despite the wide occurrence of Tfa proteins, their functional mechanism has not been elucidated. Here, we investigate the tail fibre and Tfa of Escherichia coli phage Mu.
Guide Tail fiber function and structure
Structurally these viruses have a prolate icosahedral capsid (the head) attached at one vertex to a long protein infection promoting structure (the tail) (Figure 2-1). At the far end of the tail are one or more
Guide What Are Tail Fibers and Why Are They Important?
The precise arrangement of amino acids in the receptor-binding domain of the tail fiber determines which bacterial surface molecules it can recognize, thereby defining the phage''s ability to
Guide Structure of the bacteriophage T4 long tail fiber receptor
Here we present the crystal structure of the receptor-binding tip of the bacteriophage T4 long tail fiber, which is highly homologous to the tip of the bacteriophage lambda side tail fibers.
Guide Organization of the bacteriophage T4 long tail fiber. (A) A structural
Recent significant advances at single-molecule and atomic levels have begun to unravel the structural organization of tail fibers and underlying mechanisms of phage–host interactions.