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SUBMITTER: Bartual SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2996694 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bartual Sergio G SG Otero José M JM Garcia-Doval Carmela C Llamas-Saiz Antonio L AL Kahn Richard R Fox Gavin C GC van Raaij Mark J MJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101101 47
Bacteriophages are the most numerous organisms in the biosphere. In spite of their biological significance and the spectrum of potential applications, little high-resolution structural detail is available on their receptor-binding fibers. 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. This structure reveals an unusual elongated six-stranded antiparallel ...[more]