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SUBMITTER: Zheng W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5587399 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zheng Weili W Wang Fengbin F Taylor Nicholas M I NMI Guerrero-Ferreira Ricardo C RC Leiman Petr G PG Egelman Edward H EH
Structure (London, England : 1993) 20170727 9
The bacteriophage T4 contractile tail (containing a tube and sheath) was the first biological assembly reconstructed in three dimensions by electron microscopy at a resolution of ∼35 Å in 1968. A single-particle reconstruction of the T4 baseplate was able to generate a 4.1 Å resolution map for the first two rings of the tube using the overall baseplate for alignment. We have now reconstructed the T4 tail tube at a resolution of 3.4 Å, more than a 1,000-fold increase in information content for th ...[more]