The tail includes a collar (covered with contractile proteins for the most elaborated bacteriophages, such as the T2 and T4 phages) and ending by tail fibers enabling it to attach to the bacteries ...

Lhuillier and colleagues, writing in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, now show that one of the proteins in the head-to-tail connector of the phage ...

To understand how Bil works, Sorek’s team compared phage progeny from infected bacteria with and without the system. They performed density gradient centrifugation to separate phages from bacterial ...

The structure of DEV and many other phages resembles a minuscule version of Neil Armstrong's 1969 lunar lander, with a large ...