The phage λ major tail protein structure reveals a common evolution for long-tailed phages and the type VI bacterial secretion system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4160-4165

  Pell, Lisa G ^a   Kanelis, Voula ^b,c   Donaldson, Logan W ^d   Howell, P Lynne ^a   Davidson, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disordered regions |; Macromolecular assembly; Nmr structure |

Indexed keywords

GPV PROTEIN; HCP1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CAUDOVIRALES; EVOLUTION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAUDOVIRALES; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 61849155151     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0900044106     Document Type: Article

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