Molecular architecture of tailed double-stranded DNA phages

著者: Andrei Fokine, Michael G. Rossmann - Bacteriophage 2014 被引用: 244

, constitute ~96% of all the known phages. Although these phages come in a great variety of sizes and morphology, their virions are mainly constructed of similar molecular building blocks via similar assembly pathways. Here we review the structure of tailed double-stranded DNA bacteriophages at a molecular level, emphasizing the structural similarity and common evolutionary origin of proteins that constitute these virions.