Bacteriophages are a special type of virus that infect bacteria and have amazing structural and functional diversity. When a bacteriophage infects a bacterium, it can hijack the molecular machinery of ...

A key but poorly understood stage of the bacteriophage life cycle is the binding of phage receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) to receptors on the host cell surface, leading to injection of the phage ...

In single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) viruses, virus capsid assembly and genome packaging are intertwined processes. Using cryo-electron microscopy and single particle analysis we determined the ...

Bacteriophages are small, virus-like organisms that infect bacteria. They are comprised of a protein capsule around an RNA or DNA genome. The bacteriophage structure may include various features for ...