How DNA got into the bacteriophage

preview_player
Показать описание
How the DNA got into the killer machine
In a bacterium infected by T4, new bacteriophages are assembled in a stepwise process: the shaft builds up, DNA is replicated and the empty pro-head assembles as an empty shell. But how does the DNA get into the prohead?
The initiation of DNA import is not entirely clear, but once DNA, the packaging motor and pro-head interact the DNA is rapidly threaded through a pore in the circular motor at the speed of 2000 basepairs a second.
Once the head is full, the packaging motor cuts the DNA and the complex falls off an expanded head, which has changed in shape. The shaft and long tail fibres are attached to complete the infectious particle. Within 1 hour more than 100 new phages are released from a single infected bacterium which makes the T4 phage one of the most efficient but also fascinating killing machines.
#DNA #bacteriophage #research #medicine #teaching #technology #science
Produced by biolution GmbH 2019
Model of the T4 Phage
The T4 phage depicted in this video corresponds widely to the current status of research. The model was assembled using structural data available from public databases (see below) and benefitted greatly from the following publications:
Leiman PG, Arisaka F, van Raaij MJ, Kostyuchenko VA, Aksyuk AA, Kanamaru S, Rossmann MG. Morphogenesis of the T4 tail and tail fibers. Virol J. 2010 Dec 3;7:355. doi: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-355.
Eric S. Miller, Elizabeth Kutter, Gisela Mosig, Fumio Arisaka, Takashi Kunisawa, Wolfgang Rüger. Bacteriophage T4 Genome MMBR, Mar. 2003, p. 86–156 Vol. 67, No. 1 doi: 10.1128/MMBR.67.1.86-156.2003
Siying Lin, Tanfis I. Alam, Vishal I. Kottadiel, Carl J. VanGessel, Wei-Chun Tang, Yann R. Chemla and Venigalla B. Rao. Altering the speed of a DNA packaging motor from bacteriophage T4 Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Nov 2; 45(19): 11437–11448. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx809
EMDB:EMD-2774, EMD-6079, EMD-6080, EMD-6081, EMD-6082, EMD-6083: Hu B, Margolin W, Molineux IJ, Liu J, Structural remodeling of bacteriophage T4 and host membranes during infection initiation. PNAS 112 e4919-e4928 (2015) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1501064112EMD-8661: Chen Z, Sun L, Zhang Z, Fokine A, Padilla-Sanchez V, Hanein D, Jiang W, Rossmann MG, Rao VB, Cryo-EM structure of the bacteriophage T4 isometric head at 3.3- angstrom resolution and its relevance to the assembly of icosahedral viruses. PNAS 114 E8184-E8193 (2017) doi: 10.1073/pnas.1708483114

These included the following PDB codes:
5VF3 Bacteriophage T4 isometric capsid
3FOH Fitting of gp18M crystal structure into 3D cryo-EM reconstruction of bacteriophage T4 extended tail
5IV5 Cryo-electron microscopy structure of the hexagonal pre-attachment T4 baseplate-tail tube complex
2XGF Structure of the bacteriophage T4 long tail fibre needle-shaped receptor-binding tip
Retrieved from EMDB.org:
PDB consortium, Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data (2019). Nucleic acids research Volume 47 p.D520-D528 doi: 10.1093/nar/gky949
Stephen K Burley, Helen M. Berman, et al. RCSB Protein Data Bank: biological macromolecular structures enabling research and education in fundamental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology and energy (2019) Nucleic Acids Research 47: D464–D474; doi: 10.1093/nar/gky1004.

Producer: Iris Grünert
Modelling and Animation: Christian Müller
Idea, Scientific Advice, Text and Narrator: Stefan Grünert

free to share under creative commons license CC - BY – NC – ND
Рекомендации по теме
Комментарии
Автор

I’ve never heard the phrase “Killing machine” used in such an unusual context. This was certainly a unique experience. Great work!

WisdomShark
Автор

It's mind-blowing how these things form themselves and yet there are far more complex organisms.

ronch
Автор

They're the xenomorphs of the microscopic world

dave
Автор

Thank you for your amazing animations, seeing things I´m studying "in action" motivates me when I get frustrated.
Is there any way to download your pictures for use as wallpapers?

Luke
Автор

What fascinates me is.. how do the different modular 'machines' know where to navigate to find each other? and how exactly do they move as an entire 'module?' What is it that they are suspended within at that molecular level? I just don't recall going over this in biology specifically, it was kind of glossed over. They seem so.. sentient in a way. Programmed.

Chris-cfkp
Автор

I'm wondering how many percent is the efficiency of bacteriophage replication (what I mean by efficiency is that the ratio of perfect to defective virus per infected bacteria)???

ChimeraX
Автор

I just told myself my dna better be happy that it can see itself work lol

YTIR
Автор

Covid 19 : i am humans doom
T4 bacteriophages : hold my DNA

gamerelite
Автор

Phases are an ancient invention designed to protect us from a cataclysm.

eprofessio
Автор

Amazing video! Can’t wait to see your subs increase!

changedname_
Автор

So nice Good animations brthr I shareit

ravindersain
Автор

What an amazing mechanism. Who designed all life? It can't have been simply by chance out of nothing.

ronch
Автор

How do you know that 3D shape and structure ?
What to study to understand that ?
What type of scientist 🥼 work and research about it ?

It’s so beautiful 😍 and weird !!

عبدالرحمنبركات-فن
Автор

Wow. Incredible animation of an incredible machine.

sentientflower
Автор

Looks like a sci-if movie about making spaceships

andersondjumin
Автор

What is the potential for these bacteriophages to be used and applied unethically ? How advanced is this field of science right now ?

stralplane
Автор

Id like to think that we can create artificial phages that is modified to specifically target viruses

chip
Автор

How many atoms make up one Bacteriophage?

ijansk
Автор

The red thing lookslike a plunger head

reuvenjacobzhang
Автор

What is the role of gp49 in packaging of T4 DNA?

cookdeliciouswithmithu