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The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonORCID 0000-0002-7176-8127Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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Shan He, Naito Ishimoto, Joshua L. C. Wong…·Gad M. Frankel
The paper shows that pilin cyclisation and pilus formation are robust to amino acid substitutions, but electrostatic changes impair conjugation efficiency.
Naito Ishimoto, Shan He, Mikhail V. Bogdanov…·Konstantinos Beis
The paper reports the cryo-EM structure of the RP4 conjugation pilus, revealing it is functional without phospholipid modification, challenging previous assumptions about pilus biogenesis.
Madolyn Britt, Katsuhiro Sawasato, Elissa Moller…·Sergei Sukharev
This study investigates how different lipid species affect the function of mechanosensitive channels in E. coli, finding that cardiolipin is important for MscS adaptive behavior.