Publications by authors named "Emillia M F Mauriello"
Article Synopsis
- Type IV pili (Tfp) in rod-shaped bacteria, like Myxococcus xanthus, enable twitching motility by assembling and retracting at the cell pole, with activation influenced by specific proteins.
- A polar activator protein, SgmX, is crucial for Tfp activation, but its access to the cell pole is facilitated by another protein, FrzS, which recruits SgmX.
- Research identifies two key functional domains within SgmX, revealing how MglA-GTP interacts with FrzS to confirm the protein interaction network that drives Tfp activation, showing its importance in the collective behavior of this bacterium.
