Stochastic chain termination in bacterial pilus assembly
Abstract Adhesive type 1 pili from uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains are filamentous, supramolecular protein complexes consisting of a short tip fibrillum and a long, helical rod formed by up to several thousand copies of the major pilus subunit FimA. Here, we reconstituted the entire type 1 pi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-11-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43449-y |