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A new twist on bacterial motility – two distinct type IV pili revealed by cryoEM

2019-07-31

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<h4>Summary</h4> Many bacteria express flexible protein filaments on their surface that enable a variety of important cellular functions. Type IV pili are examples of such filaments and are comprised of a helical assembly of repeating pilin subunits. Type IV pili are involved in motility (twitching), surface adhesion, biofilm formation and DNA uptake (natural transformation). They are therefore powerful structure...

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Literature Corpus work: d020aa5b-275f-573f-9da0-132f0af704dd
DOI: 10.1101/720938

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