Communications biology
Genome anchoring, retention, and release by neck proteins of Staphylococcus phage 812.
Zuzana Cieniková, Jiří Nováček, Marta Šiborová, Barbora Popelářová, Tibor Füzik, Tibor Botka, Martin Benešík, Pavol Bárdy, Roman Pantůček, Pavel Plevka
Published: 202610.1038/s42003-025-09477-8
Abstract
The virion of Staphylococcus phage 812 is formed by a capsid and a contractile tail joined together by neck proteins. The neck proteins are crucial for virion assembly, DNA packaging, and the regulation of genome release, but their functions are not…
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