title: Three-alpha-helical coiled-coil, as a proposed model for a thin rod segment of bacteriophage T3 tail fibers.
abstract: Three-stranded alpha-helical coiled-coil was considered as a model for a thin proximal rod of T3 phage tail fiber on the basis of amino acid sequence. A segment of residues from ca. 130th to 270th was shown to have a unique feature to satisfy the required conditions of the coiled-coil, and to give the observed geometry.
mesh_terms: D002942:Circular Dichroism; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D011487:Protein Conformation; D013604:T-Phages / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D014764:Viral Proteins; D017376:Viral Tail Proteins
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D014764:Viral Proteins; D017376:Viral Tail Proteins