Structure of the siphophage neck–Tail complex suggests that conserved tail tip proteins facilitate receptor binding and tail assembly

• Hao Xiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Xiao, Le Tan, Zhixue Tan

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Le Tan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Xiao, Le Tan, Zhixue Tan

  Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Zhixue Tan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hao Xiao, Le Tan, Zhixue Tan

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Yewei Zhang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Wenyuan Chen,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Xiaowu Li,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Engineering, Yongzhou, China

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• Jingdong Song ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

  * E-mail: songjd@ivdc.chinacdc.cn (JS); lingpengcheng@hunnu.edu.cn (LC); hrliu@hunnu.edu.cn (HL)

  Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

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• Lingpeng Cheng ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: songjd@ivdc.chinacdc.cn (JS); lingpengcheng@hunnu.edu.cn (LC); hrliu@hunnu.edu.cn (HL)

  Affiliation Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Hongrong Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: songjd@ivdc.chinacdc.cn (JS); lingpengcheng@hunnu.edu.cn (LC); hrliu@hunnu.edu.cn (HL)

  Affiliation Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Key Laboratory for Matter Microstructure and Function of Hunan Province, Key Laboratory of Low-dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6247-5464

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