"Viral Tail Proteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Proteins found in the tail sections of DNA and RNA viruses. It is believed that these proteins play a role in directing chain folding and assembly of polypeptide chains.
| Descriptor ID |
D017376
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.964.970.910
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| Concept/Terms |
Viral Tail Proteins- Viral Tail Proteins
- Proteins, Viral Tail
- Tail Proteins, Viral
- Virus Tail Proteins
- Proteins, Virus Tail
- Tail Proteins, Virus
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Viral Tail Proteins" by people in Profiles.
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Agnello E, Pajak J, Liu X, Kelch BA. Conformational dynamics control assembly of an extremely long bacteriophage tail tube. J Biol Chem. 2023 03; 299(3):103021.
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Stroup AN, Gierasch LM. Reduced tendency to form a beta turn in peptides from the P22 tailspike protein correlates with a temperature-sensitive folding defect. Biochemistry. 1990 Oct 23; 29(42):9765-71.