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Divergence of an extracellular contractile injection system infectivity elucidated by high resolution structural studies of its tail-baseplate complex
Anindito Sen, Tsukasa Nakamura, Genki Tarashi…·Daisuke Kihara
The paper uses cryo-EM to determine the atomic structure of the P1 Tail Baseplate complex, revealing how its unique infection mechanism involves LTFs and baseplate movement.
DOI 10.1101/2025.07.21.665459