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A pilus (Latin for 'hair'; pl.: pili) is a hair-like cell-surface appendage found on many bacteria and archaea. [1] The terms pilus and fimbria (Latin for 'fringe'; plural: fimbriae ) can be used interchangeably, although some researchers reserve the term pilus for the appendage required for bacterial conjugation .
Canarium ovatum, the pili (Central Bikol and Filipino: pili, / ˈ p iː l iː / PEE-lee;), is a species of tropical tree belonging to the genus Canarium. It is one of approximately 600 species in the family Burseraceae .
Piri piri (/ ˌ p ɪr i ˈ p ɪr i / PIRR-ee-PIRR-ee), often hyphenated or as one word, and with variant spellings peri-peri (/ ˌ p ɛr i ˈ p ɛr iː /) or pili pili, [1] is a cultivar of Capsicum frutescens from the malagueta pepper.
Both cells synthesize a complementary strand to produce a double stranded circular plasmid and also reproduce pili; both cells are now viable donor for the F-factor. [1] The F-factor is an episome (a plasmid that can integrate itself into the bacterial chromosome by homologous recombination) with a length of about 100 kb.
The Saf pilin N-terminal extension protein domain helps the pili to form, via a complex mechanism named the chaperone/usher pathway. It is found in all c-u pilins. [8] This protein domain is very important for such bacteria, as without pili formation, they could not infect the host. Saf is a Salmonella operon containing a c-u pilus system. [8]
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Pili retraction produces pulling forces on the bacterium, which will be pulled in the direction of the vector sum of the pili forces, resulting in a jerky movement. A typical type IV pilus can produce a force exceeding 100 piconewtons [79] and then a bundle of pili can produce pulling forces up to several nanonewtons. [80]
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