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MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
卷 107, 期 3, 页码 298-311出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13889
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- ERC starting grant (ARCHAELLUM) [311523]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [CRC746]
- Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship
Archaea are ubiquitously present in nature and colonize environments with broadly varying growth conditions. Several surface appendages support their colonization of new habitats. A hallmark of archaea seems to be the high abundance of type IV pili (T4P). However, some unique non T4 filaments are present in a number of archaeal species. Archaeal surface structures can mediate different processes such as cellular surface adhesion, DNA exchange, motility and biofilm formation and represent an initial attachment site for infecting viruses. In addition to the functionally characterized archaeal T4P, archaeal genomes encode a large number of T4P components that might form yet undiscovered surface structures with novel functions. In this review, we summarize recent advancement in structural and functional characterizations of known archaeal surface structures and highlight the diverse processes in which they play a role.
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