Virus caught in the act of infecting a cell
Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 19:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers found that the T7 virus has six tail fibers that are folded back against its capsid. The detailed changes in the structure of a virus as it infects an E. coli bacterium have been observed for the first time, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health) Medical School this week in Science Express.