TABLE 1.

Confirmed structural proteins encoded by genes in Ldl1^a

ORF	Function	No. of unique peptides	Coverage (%)
11	Terminase small subunit	1	8.1
13	Portal	21	46.6
14	Prohead protease	9	14.8
15	Capsid	31	75.4
21	Major tail	7	38.1
24	Distal tail protein	4	5.4
26	Adsorption protein	2	5.3
27	Adsorption protein	4	4.6
56	ATP-binding cassette transporter	2	7.7

^aStructural proteins extracted from purified phage particles were identified by ESI-MS/MS after separation on a 12% SDS-PAGE gel. A minimum of two independent unique peptides or 5% coverage was used as the threshold value.