Handover mechanism of the growing pilus by the bacterial outer-membrane usher FimD.
Du, M., Yuan, Z., Yu, H., Henderson, N., Sarowar, S., Zhao, G., Werneburg, G.T., Thanassi, D.G., Li, H.(2018) Nature 562: 444-447
- PubMed: 30283140 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0587-z
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
6E15, 6E14 - PubMed Abstract: 
Pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli assemble surface structures termed pili, or fimbriae, to mediate binding to host-cell receptors 1 . Type 1 pili are assembled via the conserved chaperone-usher pathway 2-5 . The outer ...