Structure of the Bacterial Sex F Pilus Reveals an Assembly of a Stoichiometric Protein-Phospholipid Complex.
Costa, T.R., Ilangovan, A., Ukleja, M., Redzej, A., Santini, J.M., Smith, T.K., Egelman, E.H., Waksman, G.(2016) Cell 166: 1436-1444.e10
- PubMed: 27610568 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.025
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5LEG, 5LER, 5LFB - PubMed Abstract: 
Conjugative pili are widespread bacterial appendages that play important roles in horizontal gene transfer, in spread of antibiotic resistance genes, and as sites of phage attachment. Among conjugative pili, the F "sex" pilus encoded by the F plasmid is the best functionally characterized, and it is also historically the most important, as the discovery of F-plasmid-mediated conjugation ushered in the era of molecular biology and genetics ...