Viral tail fiber protein (kw:KW-1230)
A variable number of fibers are attached to the distal part of the tail of caudovirales bacterial viruses. Tail fibers are responsible for the specific, albeit reversible primary attachment to host cell.
Due to high selective pressure, tail fiber genes evolve more rapidly than other phage genes and exchanges occur via horizontal transfer among phages crossing host phylogenetic boundaries .
David Veesler, Christian Cambillau
Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. September 2011; 75: 423?433, first page of table of contents
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Enterobacteria phage T4 (Bacteriophage T4) reference strain
4 entries
Escherichia phage Mu (Bacteriophage Mu) reference strain
2 entries
Escherichia phage Phieco32 (Escherichia coli phage phi32) reference strain
2 entries
Escherichia phage T5 (Enterobacteria phage T5) reference strain
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Acyrthosiphon pisum secondary endosymbiont phage 1 (Bacteriophage APSE-1) reference strain
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Bacillus phage phi29 (Bacteriophage phi-29) reference strain
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Bordetella phage BPP-1 reference strain
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Escherichia phage K1E (Bacteriophage K1E) reference strain
1 entry
Escherichia phage K1F (Bacteriophage K1F) reference strain
1 entry
Escherichia phage P2 (Bacteriophage P2) reference strain
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Escherichia phage T1 (Bacteriophage T1) reference strain
1 entry
Escherichia phage T7 (Bacteriophage T7) reference strain
1 entry
Escherichia phage lambda (Bacteriophage lambda) reference strain
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Haemophilus phage HP1 (strain HP1c1) (Bacteriophage HP1) reference strain
1 entry
Klebsiella phage K64-1 (Bacteriophage K64-1) reference strain
1 entry
Klebsiella phage KP36 (Bacteriophage KP36) reference strain
1 entry
Salmonella phage P22 (Bacteriophage P22) reference strain
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Salmonella phage S16 (Salmonella phage vB_SenM-S16) reference strain
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Salmonella phage epsilon15 reference strain
3 entries
Enterobacteria phage K3 (Bacteriophage K3)
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Enterobacteria phage T2 (Bacteriophage T2)
2 entries
Enterobacteria phage Ox2 (Bacteriophage Ox2)
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Escherichia phage AR1 (Bacteriophage AR1)
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Bacillus phage B103 (Bacteriophage B103)
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Bacillus phage PZA (Bacteriophage PZA)
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Enterobacteria phage M1 (Bacteriophage M1)
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Enterobacteria phage T3 (Bacteriophage T3)
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Escherichia virus K5 (Bacteriophage K5)
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Klebsiella phage 0507-KN2-1 (Taipeivirus 0507KN21)
1 entry
Klebsiella phage B1 (Bacteriophage B1)
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Klebsiella phage RAD2 (Bacteriophage RAD2)
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