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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 112, Issue 6, Pages 1674-1683Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14397
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- MRC [MR/P022197/1, MR/L008408/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/P022197/1, MR/L008408/1] Funding Source: Medline
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In the diverse world of bacterial pili, type IV pili (Tfp) are unique for two reasons: their multifunctionality and ubiquity. This latter feature offers an extraordinary possibility, that is, to perform comparative studies in evolutionarily distant species in order to improve our fragmentary understanding of Tfp biology. Regrettably, such potential has remained largely untapped, because, for 20 years, Tfp have only been characterised in diderm bacteria. However, recent studies of Tfp in monoderms have started closing the gap, revealing many interesting commonalities and a few significant differences, extending the frontiers of knowledge of Tfp biology. Here, I review the current state of the art of the Tfp field in monoderm bacteria and discuss resulting implications for our general understanding of the assembly and function of these widespread filamentous nanomachines.
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