Abstract
Viral strategies to lyse host microbes can sometimes involve just a single gene, although the mechanism of action can be hard to discern. In Science, Orta etal. present structures of a protein complex in which protein E of bacteriophage φX174 functions to inhibit host peptidoglycan synthesis, thereby inducing lysis.
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