Phages differ substantially in the bacterial hosts that they infect. Their host range is
determined by the specific structures that they use to target bacterial cells. Tailed phages …

Bacteriophages belonging to the order Caudovirales possess a tail acting as a molecular
nanomachine used during infection to recognize the host cell wall, attach to it, pierce it, and …

Bacteriophages, herpesviruses, and other large double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses
contain molecular machines that pump DNA into preassembled procapsids, generating …

The critical viral components for packaging DNA, recognizing and binding to host cells, and
injecting the condensed DNA into the host are organized at a single vertex of many …

Escherichia coli phage SU10 belongs to the genus Kuravirus from the class Caudoviricetes
of phages with short non-contractile tails. In contrast to other short-tailed phages, the tails of …

Tailed, double-stranded DNA bacteriophages provide a well-characterized model system for
the study of viral assembly, especially for herpesviruses and adenoviruses. A wealth of …

The mosaic composition of the genomes of dsDNA tailed bacteriophages (Caudovirales) is
well known. Observations of this mosaicism have generally come from comparisons of small …

Tailed dsDNA bacteriophage virions bind to susceptible cells with the tips of their tails and
then deliver their DNA through the tail into the cells to initiate infection. This chapter …

Tailed bacteriophages and herpesviruses assemble infectious particles via an empty
precursor capsid (or 'procapsid') built by multiple copies of coat and scaffolding protein and …

In this chapter, we describe the structure, assembly, function, and evolution of the long,
noncontractile tail of the siphophages, which comprise∼ 60% of the phages on earth. We …