Figure 1: Models for type 1–pilus biogenesis and usher domain architecture. Figure 2: In vivo detection of FimC–FimH binding to the FimD usher. Figure 3: Binding affinities of FimC–FimH ...

Although pathogenic bacteria often rely on a specialized molecular motor to retract their pili, a new study reveals that a minor pilin protein elicits pilus retraction in the cholera bacterium, Vibrio ...

Osaka, Japan – Bacterial infectious diseases are still a huge contributor to global disease burden and with antibiotic resistance on the rise worldwide there is an urgent need for novel treatment ...