Bacteria of the species Thermus thermophilus possess different tiny hairs (pili) which are used either to capture DNA or for motion. This has been discovered by scientists at Goethe University ...

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 ...

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 ...