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Diversity of pili-specific bacteriophages: genome sequence of IncM plasmid-dependent RNA phage M.
BMC microbiology - 24 Nov 2012
Rumnieks Janis, Tars Kaspars
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BACKGROUND: Bacteriophages of the Leviviridae family are small RNA viruses with linear, positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes that encode only four proteins. All phages of this family require bacterial pili to attach to and infect cells. Leviviridae phages utilizing F-pili for this purpose have been extensively studied. RNA phages specific for conjugative plasmid-encoded pili other than that of plasmid F...
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