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Structure of the distal part of the bacteriophage T4 tail
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Structural highlights
FunctionFIB12_BPT4 Structural component of the short tail fiber. Adhesion protein that binds irreversibly to the lipopolysaccharides component (LPS) on the cell surface of Escherichia coli B strains during virus attachment. After at least three long tail fibers have bound, short tail fibers extend and bind irreversibly to the core region of the host cell LPS.[1] References | ||||||||||||||||||||
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