Viral genomes are most vulnerable to cellular defenses at the start of the infection. A family of jumbo phages related to phage ΦKZ, which infects Pseudomonas aeruginosa, assembles a protein-based phage nucleus to protect replicating phage DNA, but how it is protected prior to phage nucleus assembly...
ORGANISM(S): Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1-VE2 Pseudomonas phage phiKZ