A bacteriophage is a type of virus that infects bacteria ... of a nucleic acid molecule that is surrounded by a protein structure. A bacteriophage attaches itself to a susceptible bacterium ...

In the study, Rossmann, along with Purdue researcher Timothy Baker and others at Purdue, and Anderson and his co-workers at Minnesota, used micro-imaging techniques – including X-ray crystallography ...

The tail of bacteriophage T4 is shown before (left ... The model contains more than 1.3 million atoms (not counting hydrogens). The structure and transformation of the baseplate (black rectangle ...