Pilin refers to a class of fibrous proteins that are found in pilus structures in bacteria. These structures can be used for the exchange of genetic material, or as a cell adhesion mechanism. …

The type IV pilin is a remarkably versatile architectural module that has been adopted widely for a variety of functions, including motility, attachment to chemically diverse surfaces, electrical …

2019年4月15日 · Many bacteria possess filamentous appendages called pili. These filaments, which include the type IV pili (T4P), chaperone-usher pili 1 and Gram-positive pili 2, are …

Type IV pili are versatile and highly flexible fibers formed on the surface of many Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria.

2018年10月29日 · Pili are short, hair-like structures on the cell surface of prokaryotic cells. They can have a role in movement, but are more often involved in adherence to surfaces, which...

2006年7月1日 · Non-flagellar appendages were first observed in Gram-negative bacteria, in the early 1950s. Since then, these structures — known as pili or fimbriae — have been extensively …

2015年7月14日 · Pilins or fimbrilins are a class of proteins found in bacterial surface pilus, a hair-like surface appendage. Both the Gram-negative and -positive bacteria produce pilins to …

To interact with the external environments, bacteria often display long proteinaceous appendages on their cell surface, called pili or fimbriae. These non-flagellar thread-like structures are …

Pili, or fimbriae, are protein polymers that form long, filamentous structures that extend from bacterial cells, mediating adhesion to host cells, colonisation, biofilm formation and sometimes …

Pili are multi-subunit non-flagellar proteinaceous filaments found on the surface of the bacterial cell (Ramirez et al., 2020). Pili acts as an initiator of host-pathogen interaction (Zhou et al., 2021).