Now, researchers have demonstrated that a set of bacterial genes necessary for H. elegans metamorphosis encodes components of structures that resemble the contractile tails of bacterial viruses or ...

Taken together, the findings reveal the biophysical mechanisms regulating the assembly of non-muscle contractile structures that are ubiquitous throughout cell biology, Korobova said. "These ...

F-type phage-tail like bacteriocins (PTLBs) are protein complexes with bactericidal activity and share similarity with non-contractile phage tails. Here, authors report the atomic structure of ...