Protein Family Models

The major structural components of the contractile tail of bacteriophage P2 are proteins FI and FII, which are believed to be the tail sheath and tube proteins, respectively. [1]. 1825255. Nucleotide sequence of the genes encoding the major tail sheath and tail tube proteins of bacteriophage P2. Temple LM, Forsburg SL, Calendar R, Christie GE;. Virology 1991;181:353-358. [2]. 7676633. Tail sheath and tail tube genes of the temperate coliphage 186. Xue Q, Egan JB;. Virology 1995;212:218-221. [3]. 23542344. A conserved spiral structure for highly diverged phage tail assembly chaperones. Pell LG, Cumby N, Clark TE, Tuite A, Battaile KP, Edwards AM, Chirgadze NY, Davidson AR, Maxwell KL;. J Mol Biol. 2013;425:2436-2449. (from Pfam)

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2024-10-16

The tails of some phage are contractile. This HMM represents the tail tube, or tail core, protein of the contractile tail of phage P2, and homologous proteins from additional phage.

Date:

2021-05-12

phage major tail tube protein is a major structural component of the contractile tail

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2019-11-26