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SUBMITTER: Luque A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7762592 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luque Antoni A Benler Sean S Lee Diana Y DY Brown Colin C White Simon S
Microorganisms 20201208 12
Tailed phages are the most abundant and diverse group of viruses on the planet. Yet, the smallest tailed phages display relatively complex capsids and large genomes compared to other viruses. The lack of tailed phages forming the common icosahedral capsid architectures T = 1 and T = 3 is puzzling. Here, we extracted geometrical features from high-resolution tailed phage capsid reconstructions and built a statistical model based on physical principles to predict the capsid diameter and genome len ...[more]