Figure 1
Diagrammatic representation of the T4 bacteriophage, adapted from Eiserling & Black (1994), showing in color the currently known structures of its components. These are the head–tail fiber fragment (fibritin) (Tao et al., 1997), gp9 (Kostyuchenko et al., 1999) and gp11 (Leiman et al., 2000). |