We believe that bacteriophages, which consist of only two components of nucleic acids and coat proteins, are suitable for the study of the inactivation mechanism because their simple structure can ...

Figure 1: Diagram showing the process of generalized bacterial transduction. A) Bacteriophage binding and infection. B) Bacteriophage replication. C) Cell lysis and bacteriophage release. D) ...

To bypass this obstacle, a homology atomic model of gp20 was constructed by comparing the X-ray structures of three portals from closely related bacteriophages, namely, SPP1 gp6, phi29 gp10, and P22 ...

Bacteriophages, generally known as phages ... which has an entirely different structure from animal cell membranes, so they are powerless to infect human cells. Second, they are highly specific ...

In one new study reported in Nature Communications, researchers have solved the three-dimensional structure of a bacteriophage called a tequintavirus, or T5-like bacteriophage. The research showed ...

Figure 1: Example structure of a bacteriophage. Credit: Technology Networks. In order to reproduce, phage must first enter the host cell. They bind to specific receptors on the bacterial cell surface ...