Revisiting phage tail spike architecture: evidence for undetected receptor-binding proteins in Caudoviricetes with non-contractile tails
These results suggest that the analysed phages possess an additional, previously unidentified protein at the tip of the tail spike, which likely facilitates interaction with receptor proteins on the bacterial cell surface.
Authors
- Anna Kawa
- Jolanta Witaszewska
- Joanna Kazimierczak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8667-7949)
- Ewelina Wójcik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9743-9268)
- Rafał Matusiak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-610X)
- Magdalena Antczak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6789-4032)
- Małgorzata Paszkiewicz
Institutions
- Institute of Urban and Regional Development (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Published
- 2025-07-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1625765
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.87