Lifting the lid on pilus assembly.
basic_science · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 25350974.
- Also identified by DOI 10.7554/eLife.04997 and PMC identifier 4210809.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
A combination of computer simulations, evolutionary analysis and graph theory has provided new insights into the assembly of pili on the surface of bacteria.
Medical subject headings
- Fimbriae, Bacterial