Structural basis for repurposing a flexible phage tail into an Intraspecific bacterial competition weapon
Fulin Yang, Zelin Zhang, Chengkai Yang, Jun Hou, Hanzhong Feng, Dongsheng Lei, Yong‐Xing He
This paper determines the high-resolution structure of an F-type tailocin, revealing its assembly mechanism and specialized tail-fiber architecture for bacterial competition.
bioRxiv · Feb 24, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics