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Interactions between a bacteriophage and a receptor. Panel a depicts the hypothetical key-lock interactions between λ-phage and a LamB receptor. The detailed drawing inside the dotted line box is shown in panel b. As the drawing suggests, the rotational diffusion of the phage particle can make it either free or permanently bound to the receptor.
