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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Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2024-01-01
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Series: | mBio |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02667-23 |