Excess Tail Fiber

Jan 05, 2026

Towards a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas | bioRxiv

Bacteriophages use receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) to adhere to bacterial hosts. Understanding the structure of these RBPs can provide insights into their target interactions. Tail

Jul 21, 2025

Amino acid residues in the tail fiber differentiate the host

These findings provide insights into how the mutations in the tail fiber gene contribute to the fitness of phages within natural environments and help

Aug 20, 2025

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Viral fibers play a central role in many virus infection mechanisms since they recognize the corresponding host and establish a mechanical link to its surface. Specifically, bacteriophages have

Dec 27, 2025

Towards a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas

RBPseg workflow in detail, step-by-step demonstrating the 682 architecture of RBPseg using TC14 fiber as example. A FASTA file is input to ESMfold, which 683 generates a monomeric model.

Apr 11, 2026

Bacteriophage Tail Fiber Interaction with Host Surface

Using homology modeling with the structurally characterized T7 phage, they generated the tail fiber structure of T3 and identified similar distal

Oct 08, 2025

The LCGC Blog: HPLC Diagnostic Skills II – Tailing Peaks

In HPLC Diagnostics Skills Part I we looked at baseline issues, and we continue here with HPLC peaks and in particular the skills required to identify tailing peaks, the causes of peak

Jun 06, 2026

Process for making loose buffer tubes having controlled excess fiber

Disclosed is an improved buffering method for controlling excess fiber length (EFL) and reducing post-extrusion shrinkage in loose buffer tubes. In this way, the method yields first-quality loose buffer

May 05, 2026

Fiber tail fiber characteristics

Pigtail, also known as pigtail, has only one end with a connector, and the other end is a broken end of a fiber optic cable core. It is connected to other

Mar 22, 2026

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May 20, 2026

Structural Insights into the Chaperone-Assisted

At the first step of phage infection, the receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) such as tail fibers are responsible for recognizing specific host surface

Jul 14, 2026

Major tail proteins of bacteriophages of the order Caudovirales

These hollow elongated protein structures, present in most bacteriophages of the order Caudovirales, connect the DNA-containing capsid with a receptor function at the distal end of the tail

Nov 15, 2025

What Are Tail Fibers and Why Are They Important?

Tail fiber proteins can also be used as biosensing molecules to detect particular bacterial pathogens. Studying tail fibers contributes to fundamental research into host-pathogen interactions,

Jun 29, 2026

Genus-wide Homologous Recombination of Tail Fibers Maintains

However, the mechanism maintaining the diversity of the tailocin tail fibers, which enable recognition of the target bacteria, is not yet completely understood. Here, we characterized the

Apr 28, 2026

Statistical characteristics of excess fiber length in loose tubes of

Research of variability excess fiber length in loose tube and in cable delivery length during manufacture of optical cable are analyzed in this paper.

Mar 15, 2026

Structure of the putative long tail fiber receptor-binding tip of a

Their singular structures, such as spikes or fibers are of special interest given their potential use in a wide range of biotechnological applications. In particular, the long fibers present at

Nov 23, 2025

The Function of Bacteriophage Tail Fibers: Infection and Replication

Without tail fibers, phages couldn''t **attach to bacterial surfaces**—making them essential for infection. Structurally, they''re composed of **subunits like gp34 (long fibers) or gp35 (short fibers)**, arranged

May 16, 2026

Functional domains of Acinetobacter bacteriophage tail

In this study, we analyzed the tail fibers of published Acinetobacter phages and identified different functional domains present.

Jan 15, 2026

Phage Proteins Required for Tail Fiber Assembly Also Bind

The complicated nature of fiber structures necessitates the participation of intra- or intermolecular chaperones for their proper folding and assembly (5 – 7). Tail fiber assembly (Tfa)

Apr 12, 2026

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Mar 15, 2026

A comprehensive catalogue of receptor-binding domains in

Extracellular contractile injection systems (eCISs) are bacteriophage tail-derived toxin delivery complexes in prokaryotes. They play roles in microbial interactions with hosts, using tail fiber

Aug 13, 2025

RBPseg: Toward a complete phage tail fiber structure atlas

Here, we introduce RBPseg, a method that combines monomeric ESMFold predictions with a structural- based domain identification approach, to divide tail fiber sequences into

Sep 02, 2025

Detecting tail behavior: mean excess plots with confidence bounds

Abstract In many practical situations exploratory plots are helpful in understanding tail behavior of sample data. The Mean Excess plot is one of the exploratory tools often used in practice to

Jan 27, 2026

R pyocin tail fiber structure reveals a receptor-binding domain with a

R pyocins are ɸCTX-like myophage tailocins of Pseudomonas sp. Adsorption of R pyocins to target strains occurs by the interaction of tail fiber proteins with core lipopolysaccharide (LPS).

Jan 29, 2026

Understanding Bacteriophage Tail Fiber Interaction with

In this review, we comprehensively summarize how the tail fibers of the T4 phage recognize host surface receptors at single-molecule and atomic