Artistic representation of phages of the family Siphoviridae that infect a bacterial cell (IMAGE)

Forschungsverbund Berlin

Artistic representation of phages of the family Siphoviridae that infect a bacterial cell

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Artistic representation of phages of the family Siphoviridae (yellow and blue) that infect a bacterial cell (green). The excerpt (circle) shows the atomic structure of the DNA tube (yellow), through which the phages inject their DNA into the bacterium.

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Visualization: Barth van Rossum, FMP

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