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 ...
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 ...
A bacterial virus is caused by a bacteriophage, or ... If the phage's protective capsid protein is present, CmdC disassociates from CmdT and CmdA and interacts with the phage capsid protein ...
The structure of the PP7 bacteriophage coat protein revealed ... Chao made a truncation that interfered with assembly of the capsid but still allowed the protein to dimerize and bind RNA.