Three-dimensional structure of bacteriophage T4 baseplate

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 688-693

  Kostyuchenko, Victor A ^a,b   Leiman, Petr G ^b   Chipman, Paul R ^b   Kanamaru, Shuji ^b   Van Raaij, Mark J ^c   Arisaka, Fumio ^d   Mesyanzhinov, Vadim V ^a   Rossmann, Michael G ^b  

^a SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0041819526     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb970     Document Type: Article

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