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SUBMITTER: Pelicic V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6916266 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecular microbiology 20191008 6
In the diverse world of bacterial pili, type IV pili (Tfp) are unique for two reasons: their multifunctionality and ubiquity. This latter feature offers an extraordinary possibility, that is, to perform comparative studies in evolutionarily distant species in order to improve our fragmentary understanding of Tfp biology. Regrettably, such potential has remained largely untapped, because, for 20 years, Tfp have only been characterised in diderm bacteria. However, recent studies of Tfp in monoderm ...[more]