Elucidating the Role of gpW: an Essential Baseplate Protein in Bacteriophage P2

The long, contractile tails of myophages are the conduit for phage DNA transfer into the bacterial host cell and the most important part of the myophage tail is the baseplate; a complex structure, distal to the phage head. To better understand the structure and function of myophage baseplates, a com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fatehi Hassanabad, Mostafa
Other Authors: Davidson, Alan R.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
Subjects:
gpW
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42905