Stoichiometry and domainal organization of the long tail-fiber of bacteriophage T4: A hinged viral adhesin

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 260, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 767-780

  Cerritelli, Mario E ^a   Wall, Joseph S ^b   Simon, Martha N ^b   Conway, James F ^a   Steven, Alasdair C ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesin; Bacteriophage tail fiber; Compute image processing; Molecular stoichiometry; Scanning transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; LONG TAIL FIBER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS INFECTION;

T4 BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0030564888     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0436     Document Type: Article

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