High-resolution structure of podovirus tail adaptor suggests repositioning of an octad motif that mediates the sequential tail assembly [Biochemistry]

The sophisticated tail structures of DNA bacteriophages play essential roles in life cycles. Podoviruses P22 and Sf6 have short tails consisting of multiple proteins, among which is a tail adaptor protein that connects the portal protein to the other tail proteins. Assembly of the tail has been shown to occur...

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