Stochastic chain termination in bacterial pilus assembly
C. Giese, C. Puorger, O. Ignatov, Z. Becarova, M. Weber, M. Scharer, G. Capitani, R. Glockshuber
The paper reconstitutes type 1 pilus rod assembly in vitro, identifies FimI as an irreversible terminator, and models the stochastic chain termination mechanism that determines pilus length.
bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2022Biophysics