Architecture of the type II secretion system
Minoosadat Tayebinia, Nouran Ghanem, Hui Zhang, Yi Yang, Arianna Fornili, Vladimir E. Shevchik, Vidya Dabari, Richard W. Pickersgill
The paper uses AlphaFold and cryo-EM to reveal the structure of the type II secretion system's pilus assembly platform and its organization across membranes.
bioRxiv · May 7, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology