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Cooperative Retraction of Bundled Type IV Pili Enables Nanonewton Force Generation

The causative agent of gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, bears retractable filamentous appendages called type IV pili (Tfp). Tfp are used by many pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria to carry out a number of vital functions, including DNA uptake, twitching motility (crawling over surfaces), and att...

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Auteurs principaux: Biais, Nicolas, Ladoux, Benoît, Higashi, Dustin, So, Magdalene, Sheetz, Michael
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Public Library of Science 2008
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292754/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18416602
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060087
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