ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017
Asymmetric distribution of type IV pili triggered by directional light in unicellular cyanobacteria.
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- A cyanobacterial chemotaxis-like system controls phototactic orientation via phosphorylation of two antagonistic response regulators.microLife · 2024Article
- FrzS acts as a polar beacon to recruit SgmX, a central activator of type IV pili during Myxococcus xanthus motility.The EMBO journal · 2023Article
- Live Cell Imaging of the Twitching Motility of Cyanobacteria by High-Resolution Microscopy.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Landmark Discoveries and Recent Advances in Type IV Pilus Research.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2022Review
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- Cyanobacteria: Model Microorganisms and Beyond.Microorganisms · 2022Review
- Bacterial motility: machinery and mechanisms.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
- Crash landing ofeLife · 2021Article
- The cyanobacterial taxis protein HmpF regulates type IV pilus activity in response to light.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
The type IV pili (T4P) system is a supermolecular machine observed in prokaryotes. Cells repeat the cycle of T4P extension, surface attachment, and retraction to drive twitching motility. Although the properties of T4P as a motor have been scrutinized with biophysics techniques, the mechanism of regulation remains unclear. Here we provided the framework of the T4P dynamics at the single-cell level in
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