These structures, along with biochemical studies by Koji Nakayama's lab in Nagasaki, Japan, confirmed that the Bacteroidia pilins do indeed form a new type of pili. "The most striking finding was ...

New light has been shed on dynamics of asymmetric type IV pili distribution and twitching motility triggered by directional light in cyanobacteria. Type IV pili (T4P) are fascinating ...

L. Talà et al., “Pseudomonas aeruginosa orchestrates twitching motility by sequential control of type IV pili movements,” Nat Microbiol, 4:774–80, 2019. Bacteria use long, threadlike attachments known ...

These groups are chaperone-usher pathway pili, type IV pili, curli pili and the CS1 pilus family. The pili of Gram-positive bacteria are, as far as we know, less varied. They fall into one of two ...