PNEUMATIC DRAWBRIDGE. “The gatekeeper system opens for viral genome exit at the beginning of infection but recloses afterward, suggesting a molecular diaphragm-like mechanism to control DNA efflux. The mechanisms described here, controlling the essential steps of phage genome movements during virus assembly and infection, are likely to be conserved among long-tailed phages, the largest group of viruses in the Biosphere.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/22/7009.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022