Piercing mechanism in the minimal contractile tail of bacteriophage P2
A previously undescribed fold is identified in the head-to-tail adaptor, which mediates the transition from 12-fold portal symmetry to sixfold tail symmetry through interlocking β-strand “handshake” interactions and support a distinct model of contractile tail activation and expand the known architectural diversity of...
Victor Klein-Sousa, M. Šiborová, A. Roa-Eguiara et al.
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