Viral baseplate protein (kw:KW-1226)
The baseplate is the most distal part of the tail of Myoviridae and Siphoviridae bacterial viruses. It acts as a multiprotein molecular machine that binds to the host cell entry receptor, controls tail sheath contraction (in Myoviridae) and initiate genome ejection. Genome ejection is usually triggered by a change in the baseplate conformation
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The bacteriophage T4 DNA injection machine
Michael G Rossmann, Vadim V Mesyanzhinov, Fumio Arisaka, Petr G Leiman
Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. April 2004; 14: 171-180
Michael G Rossmann, Vadim V Mesyanzhinov, Fumio Arisaka, Petr G Leiman
Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. April 2004; 14: 171-180
Structure of lactococcal phage p2 baseplate and its mechanism of activation
Giuliano Sciara, Cecilia Bebeacua, Patrick Bron, Denise Tremblay, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardia, Julie Lichi?re, Marin van Heel, Val?rie Campanacci, Sylvain Moineau, Christian Cambillau
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. April 13, 2010; 107: 6852?6857
Giuliano Sciara, Cecilia Bebeacua, Patrick Bron, Denise Tremblay, Miguel Ortiz-Lombardia, Julie Lichi?re, Marin van Heel, Val?rie Campanacci, Sylvain Moineau, Christian Cambillau
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. April 13, 2010; 107: 6852?6857
Matching UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entries
(all links/actions below point to uniprot.org website)33 entries grouped by strain
12 entries
Enterobacteria phage T4 (Bacteriophage T4) reference strain
6 entries
Escherichia phage P2 (Bacteriophage P2) reference strain
5 entries
Escherichia phage Mu (Bacteriophage Mu) reference strain
2 entries
Lactococcus phage SK1 (Lactococcus lactis bacteriophage SK1) reference strain
2 entries
Vibrio phage KVP40 (isolate Vibrio parahaemolyticus/Japan/Matsuzaki/1991) (KVP40) (Bacteriophage KVP40) reference strain
1 entry
Enterococcus phage phiEF24C (Enterococcus bacteriophage phi-EF24C) reference strain
1 entry
Escherichia phage 186 (Bacteriophage 186) reference strain
1 entry
Escherichia phage T5 (Enterobacteria phage T5) reference strain
1 entry
Haemophilus phage HP1 (strain HP1c1) (Bacteriophage HP1) reference strain
2 entries