Journal article
The Type IVa Pilus Machinery Is Recruited to Sites of Future Cell Division
Abstract
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 rod-shaped bacteria. How the T4aP assembly complex becomes integrated into the cell envelope in the absence of dedicated peptidoglycan (PG) hydrolases …
Authors
Carter T; Buensuceso RNC; Tammam S; Lamers RP; Harvey H; Howell PL; Burrows LL
Journal
mBio, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 10.1128/mbio.02103–10.1128/mbio.02116
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Publication Date
March 8, 2017
DOI
10.1128/mbio.02103-16
ISSN
2161-2129