Type IV pili are strong, flexible filaments with varied roles in bacterial pathogenicity. Pilin structures and models are integrated here in a comprehensive review of the molecular basis of the ...

Type IV pili, essential for many pathogens to cause disease, are hair-like appendages that grow out of and are retracted back into bacteria cells, enabling them to move and adhere to surfaces.

The pili of Gram-negative bacteria are long extracellular polymers that mediate diverse functions, such as bacterial attachment, movement and substrate transport. There are five classes of pili in ...

Slender bacterial nanowires require certain key amino acids in order to conduct electricity, according to a new study. Slender bacterial nanowires require certain key amino acids in order to conduct ...

Although pathogenic bacteria often rely on a specialized molecular motor to retract their pili, a new study reveals that a minor pilin protein elicits pilus retraction in the cholera bacterium, Vibrio ...

Slender bacterial nanowires require certain key amino acids in order to conduct electricity, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for ...

(Nanowerk News) Slender bacterial nanowires require certain key amino acids in order to conduct electricity, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the ...