Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 25 (June 20, 2017), pp. 6593-6598 (6 pages) The type IV pili (T4P) system is a supermolecular machine ...

The surfaces of Gram-negative bacteria are adorned with versatile nanomachines that include Type IV pili and associated secretion systems. These structures are crucial for a range of functions such as ...

Many bacteria interact with their environment through hair-like structures known as pili, which attach to and help mediate infection of host organisms, among other things. Now a U.S.-Japanese research ...

Bacteria of the species Thermus thermophilus possess different tiny hairs (pili) which are used either to capture DNA or for motion. This has been discovered by scientists at Goethe University ...

Bacterial infections are frequently based on the binding of lectinlike adhesins to specific glycan determinants exposed on host cell receptors. These interactions confer species-specific recognition ...