ArticleVirology2019
The role of side tail fibers during the infection cycle of phage lambda.
Article in Virology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Structural basis of bacteriophage Ur-lambda infection initiation.Science advances · 2025Article
- Two receptor-targeting mechanisms of lambda-like siphophage Gifsy-1 of Salmonella Typhimurium.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Coinfecting phages impede each other's entry into the cell.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
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- Expansion of the Plaquing Host Range and Improvement of the Absorption Rate of a T5-like Salmonella Phage by Altering the Long Tail Fibers.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Live cell dynamics of production, explosive release and killing activity of phage tail-like weapons for Pseudomonas kin exclusion.Communications biology · 2021Article
- Conserved and Diverse Traits of Adhesion Devices fromViruses · 2020Review
- Characterization of a Novel Tanay Virus Isolated FromFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Bacteriophage λ has served as an important model for molecular biology and different cellular processes over the past few decades. In 1992, the phage strain used in most laboratories around the world, thought of as λ wild type, was discovered to carry a mutation in the stf gene which encodes four side tail fibers. Up to now, the role of the side tail fibers during the infection cycle, especially at the single-cell level, remains largely unknown. Here we utilized fluorescent reporter systems to characterize the effect of the side tail fibers on phage infection. We found that the side tail fibers interfere with phage DNA ejection process, most likely through the binding with their receptors, OmpC, leading to a more frequent failed infection. However, the side tail fibers do not seem to affect the lysis-lysogeny decision-making or lysis time.
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