Systematic functional analysis of the Com pilus in Streptococcus sanguinis: a minimalistic type 4 filament dedicated to DNA uptake in monoderm bacteria

ABSTRACTType 4 filaments (T4F) are a superfamily of versatile nanomachines, ubiquitous in prokaryotes, which use conserved multi-protein machineries to assemble and operate filamentous polymers of type 4 pilins. In the best-studied T4F, these machineries are complex, which has posed challenges to un...

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Published in:	mBio
Main Authors:	Jeremy Mom, Iman Chouikha, Odile Valette, Laetitia Pieulle, Vladimir Pelicic
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Society for Microbiology 2024-01-01
Subjects:	type 4 pili type 4 filaments pilus assembly genetic competence
Online Access:	https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02667-23