Crystal structure of the tail terminator protein from phage lambda (gpU-WT)Crystal structure of the tail terminator protein from phage lambda (gpU-WT)

Structural highlights

3fzb is a 10 chain structure with sequence from Escherichia virus Lambda. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.8Å
Ligands:
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

TTTP_LAMBD Plays an essential role in tail assembly by capping the rapidly polymerizing tail once it has reached its requisite length and serving as the interaction surface for the completion protein.[1]

Evolutionary Conservation

 

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

References

  1. Katsura I. Mechanism of length determination in bacteriophage lambda tails. Adv Biophys. 1990;26:1-18. doi: 10.1016/0065-227x(90)90004-d. PMID:2150582 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0065-227x(90)90004-d

3fzb, resolution 2.80Å

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