Term Information

Accession
GO:0098028
Name
virus tail, shaft
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
bacteriophage tail shaft
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The tube of the non-contractile tails of some viruses. Source: GOC:bm
Comment
This term applies in particular to the Siphoviridae bacteriophages, where the shaft is the channel for DNA translocation into the host cytoplasm.
History
See term history for GO:0098028 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of virus tail, shaft (GO:0098028)
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virus tail, shaft [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  virus tail (GO:0098015)
virus tail, shaft [is_a relation] is_a  virion component (GO:0044423)

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