CHAPEL HILL – Bacteria can swim, propelling themselves through fluids using a whip-like extension called a flaggella. They can also walk, strolling along solid surfaces using little fibrous legs ...
Type IV pili, essential for many pathogens to cause disease, are hair-like appendages that grow out of and are retracted back into bacteria cells, enabling them to move and adhere to surfaces.
Katja Siewering, Samta Jain, Carmen Friedrich, Mariam T. Webber-Birungi, Dmitry A. Semchonok, Ina Binzen, Alexander Wagner, Stuart Huntley, Jörg Kahnt, Andreas Klingl, Egbert J. Boekema, Lotte Søgaard ...