{"title":"Molecular architecture of tailed double-stranded DNA phages.","authors":"Andrei Fokine, Michael G Rossmann","doi":"10.4161/bact.28281","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The tailed double-stranded DNA bacteriophages, or <i>Caudovirales</i>, constitute ~96% of all the known phages. Although these phages come in a great variety of sizes and morphology, their virions are mainly constructed of similar molecular building blocks via similar assembly pathways. Here we review the structure of tailed double-stranded DNA bacteriophages at a molecular level, emphasizing the structural similarity and common evolutionary origin of proteins that constitute these virions.</p>","PeriodicalId":8686,"journal":{"name":"Bacteriophage","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4161/bact.28281","citationCount":"189","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bacteriophage","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4161/bact.28281","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2014/2/21 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The tailed double-stranded DNA bacteriophages, or Caudovirales, constitute ~96% of all the known phages. Although these phages come in a great variety of sizes and morphology, their virions are mainly constructed of similar molecular building blocks via similar assembly pathways. Here we review the structure of tailed double-stranded DNA bacteriophages at a molecular level, emphasizing the structural similarity and common evolutionary origin of proteins that constitute these virions.