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A component of the side tail fiber of Escherichia coli bacteriophage lambda can functionally replace the receptor-recognizing part of a long tail fiber protein of the unrelated bacteriophage T4.

The distal part of the long tail fiber of Escherichia coli bacteriophage T4 consists of a dimer of protein 37. Dimerization requires the catalytic action of protein 38, which is encoded by T4 and is not present in the virion. It had previously been shown that gene tfa of the otherwise entirely unrel...

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Main Authors: Montag, D, Schwarz, H, Henning, U
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1989
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC210215/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2526805
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