A dynamic field of study has emerged involving long-range electron transport by
extracellular filaments in anaerobic bacteria, with Geobacter sulfurreducens being used as a …

Technological advances in cryo-EM in recent years have given rise to detailed atomic
structures of bacteriophage tail tubes—a class of filamentous protein assemblies that could …

Electrically conductive appendages from the anaerobic bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens
were first observed two decades ago, with genetic and biochemical data suggesting that …

Type IV pili (T4Ps) are abundant in many bacterial and archaeal species, where they play
important roles in both surface sensing and twitching motility, with implications for adhesion …

Type IV pili are versatile and highly flexible fibers formed on the surface of many Gram-
negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Virulence and infection rate of several pathogenic …

Type 4 filaments (T4F) are a superfamily of filamentous nanomachines–virtually ubiquitous
in prokaryotes and functionally versatile–of which type 4 pili (T4P) are the defining member …

Bacteriophage SPP1 is a double-stranded DNA virus of the Siphoviridae family that infects
the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. This family of phages features a long, flexible, non-contractile …

Abstract Type 4 pili (T4P) are important virulence factors, which belong to a superfamily of
nanomachines ubiquitous in prokaryotes, called type 4 filaments (T4F). T4F are defined as …

Type IV pili are flexible filaments on the surface of bacteria, consisting of a helical assembly
of pilin proteins. They are involved in bacterial motility (twitching), surface adhesion, biofilm …

Natural transformation is the process by which bacteria take up genetic material from their
environment and integrate it into their genome by homologous recombination. It represents …