Type IV pili—a numbers game

Type IV pili are long polymers located on the surface of a wide variety of bacterial cells, including the pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. They are responsible for a diverse range of functions, including adhesion, motility and natural transformation. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Imhaus and Dum...

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Autores principales: Karuppiah, Vijaykumar, Derrick, Jeremy P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4195755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24966276
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embj.201489096
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description Type IV pili are long polymers located on the surface of a wide variety of bacterial cells, including the pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. They are responsible for a diverse range of functions, including adhesion, motility and natural transformation. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Imhaus and Duménil show that two minor pilins, PilX and PilV, exert some of their effects by changing mean surface pilus number and that this modulates different pilus-dependent functions.
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spelling pubmed-41957552015-08-18 Type IV pili—a numbers game Karuppiah, Vijaykumar Derrick, Jeremy P EMBO J Have You Seen? Type IV pili are long polymers located on the surface of a wide variety of bacterial cells, including the pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. They are responsible for a diverse range of functions, including adhesion, motility and natural transformation. In this issue of The EMBO Journal, Imhaus and Duménil show that two minor pilins, PilX and PilV, exert some of their effects by changing mean surface pilus number and that this modulates different pilus-dependent functions. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-08-18 2014-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4195755/ /pubmed/24966276 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embj.201489096 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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