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Oct 26, 2025

Molecular anatomy of the receptor binding module of a

Author summary Bacteriophage (phage) T4 belongs to myoviridae, a widely distributed family of viruses on Earth.

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Nov 12, 2025

Viral tail fiber assembly ~ ViralZone

Morphogenesis of the T4 tail and tail fibers Petr G Leiman, Fumio Arisaka, Mark J van Raaij, Victor A Kostyuchenko, Anastasia A

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Oct 23, 2025

Fiber tail fiber characteristics

Pigtail, also known as pigtail, has only one end with a connector, and the other end is a

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Mar 23, 2026

Viral tail fiber protein | Keywords

Viral fibrous protein part of the virion fiber, which is a thin long rod like structure, unique or multiple, appended to the tail of

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Jan 16, 2026

RCSB PDB

Bacteriophage infection, a pivotal process in microbiology, initiates with the phage''s tail

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Jul 04, 2026

Structural Insights into the Chaperone-Assisted Assembly of a

At the first step of phage infection, the receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) such as tail fibers are responsible for

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Mar 18, 2026

RCSB PDB

This study revealed the high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the

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Jul 09, 2026

What Are Tail Fibers and Why Are They Important?

Tail fiber proteins can also be used as biosensing molecules to detect particular bacterial pathogens. Studying tail

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Jul 07, 2026

Phage tail fibre assembly proteins employ a modular structure to drive

The crystal structure of a complex between the tail fibre and tail fibre assembly (Tfa) protein of Escherichia coli phage

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Sep 30, 2025

The function of tail fibers in triggering baseplate expansion of

Abstract Normal particles of bacteriophage T4 have six long tail fibers attached to a hexagonal baseplate. T4 particles

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Jun 03, 2026

Attachment of tail fibers in bacteriophage T4 assembly: Role of the

The collar and whiskers of bacteriophage T4 extend outward from the top of the tail and play a role in regulating

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Aug 26, 2025

Towards a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas | bioRxiv

Bacteriophages use receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) to adhere to bacterial hosts. Understanding the structure of

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Feb 11, 2026

Nearly complete structure of bacteriophage DT57C reveals

Here, we present the structure of DT57C determined by cryo-EM, and an atomic model of the virus, which was further

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Sep 22, 2025

Evaluating Phage Tail Fiber Receptor-Binding Proteins Using

While this manuscript only demonstrates our assay''s ability to characterize adsorptive capabilities of phage tail fibers,

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Aug 30, 2025

The Architecture and Function of gp17: A Core Viral Tail Fiber Protein

Central to its infectivity is the tail fiber protein, gp17, which mediates the initial, critical step of host recognition and attachment. This

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Nov 01, 2025

Structural Characterization and Assembly of the Distal Tail Structure

Because ORF46 and ORF47 are essential for tail formation, as is the TMP (52), we propose that these three proteins form a tail

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Apr 05, 2026

Major tail proteins of bacteriophages of the order Caudovirales

Technological advances in cryo-EM in recent years have given rise to detailed atomic structures of bacteriophage tail

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Feb 24, 2026

Tail fiber protein

The tail comprises six fibers made of gp17 trimers, 2 nm in diameter and 32 nm in length. May attach to host lipopolysaccharides

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Mar 12, 2026

Phage Proteins Required for Tail Fiber Assembly Also Bind

The complicated nature of fiber structures necessitates the participation of intra- or intermolecular chaperones for their

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Jan 18, 2026

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Feb 19, 2026

Structure of the putative long tail fiber receptor-binding tip of a

Their singular structures, such as spikes or fibers are of special interest given their potential use in a wide range of

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Oct 09, 2025

(PDF) Molecular Anatomy of the Receptor Binding Module of a

Organization of the bacteriophage T4 long tail fiber. (A) A structural model of bacteriophage T4 virion showing the

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Nov 06, 2025

Tail Fiber: Types, Functions, and Common Interfaces

By fusing the bare fibers in the optical cable with the tail fiber, a seamless connection is established. The tail fiber has

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Sep 18, 2025

Understanding Bacteriophage Tail Fiber

The exact mechanisms of how the tail fiber interacts with the receptor at the molecular/atomic level are critical for engineering

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Nov 27, 2025

Structural Insights into the Chaperone-Assisted Assembly of a

Structural analysis enabled us to propose the assembly mechanism of phage tail fibers, in which the chaperone first

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Oct 24, 2025

Why are tail fibers important to a virus?

Why are tail fibers important to a virus? The tailed phage T4 encodes a specialized device for this purpose, the long tail

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Mar 30, 2026

RBPseg: Toward a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas

Here, we introduce RBPseg, a method that combines monomeric ESMFold predictions with a structural-based domain

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