Founder@Hoxton VC. Bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is constituted of a proteic envelope (called capsid), containing its ... [+] nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), and a tail. The tail includes a collar ...

The DNA inside a phage capsid is densely packaged, and therefore a strong gate is required to keep it inside. Lhuillier and colleagues, writing in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National ...