The vibrio cholerae minor pilin tcpb initiates assembly and retraction of the toxin-coregulated pilus

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• who: Dixon Ng et al. from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada have published the research: The Vibrio cholerae Minor Pilin TcpB Initiates Assembly and Retraction of the Toxin-Coregulated Pilus, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of December/19,/2016
• what: The authors show that like its homolog CofB pilus co-localizes with pili but at extremely low levels equivalent to one subunit per pilus. The authors propose that pilus by incorporating into growing pilus in a Glu5-dependent manner which stalls and . . .
  

   

  

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