The Type IVa Pilus Machinery Is Recruited to Sites of Future Cell Division
Type IVa pili (T4aP) are ubiquitous microbial appendages used for adherence, twitching motility, DNA uptake, and electron transfer. Many of these functions depend on dynamic assembly and disassembly of the pilus by a megadalton-sized, cell envelope-spanning protein complex located at the poles of ro...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-01-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/1/e02103-16 |