Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

L. Talà et al., “Pseudomonas aeruginosa orchestrates twitching motility by sequential control of type IV pili movements,” Nat Microbiol, 4:774–80, 2019. Bacteria use long, threadlike attachments known ...

Caption This video shows a pilus shoot out from the bacterial cell to latch onto a piece of DNA. The image on the right shows the bacteria and pilus in green and the DNA in red. The image on the ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

They use hair-like filaments known as pili to reduce, or add electrons to ... sulfurreducens could reduce uranium, understanding how they do it could help researchers use the bacteria more effectively ...