Steered molecular dynamics simulations of a type IV pilus probe initial stages of a force-induced conformational transition.

by Joseph L Baker, Nicolas Biais, Florence Tama
Published 2013-04-01

Cooperative retraction of bundled type IV pili enables nanonewton force generation.

by Nicolas Biais, Benoît Ladoux, Dustin Higashi, Magdalene So, Michael Sheetz
Published 2008-04-01

Pili-Induced Clustering of N. gonorrhoeae Bacteria.

by Johannes Taktikos, Yen Ting Lin, Holger Stark, Nicolas Biais, Vasily Zaburdaev
Published 2015-01-01

N. elongata produces type IV pili that mediate interspecies gene transfer with N. gonorrhoeae.

by Dustin L Higashi, Nicolas Biais, Nathan J Weyand, Al Agellon, Jennifer L Sisko, Lewis M Brown, Magdalene So
Published 2011-01-01

PilT and PilU are homohexameric ATPases that coordinate to retract type IVa pili.

by Jennifer L Chlebek, Hannah Q Hughes, Aleksandra S Ratkiewicz, Rasman Rayyan, Joseph Che-Yen Wang, Brittany E Herrin, Triana N Dalia, Nicolas Biais, Ankur B Dalia
Published 2019-10-01

Common Cell Shape Evolution of Two Nasopharyngeal Pathogens.

by Frédéric J Veyrier, Nicolas Biais, Pablo Morales, Nouria Belkacem, Cyril Guilhen, Sylvia Ranjeva, Odile Sismeiro, Gérard Péhau-Arnaudet, Eduardo P Rocha, Catherine Werts, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Ivo G Boneca
Published 2015-07-01

The Vibrio cholerae Minor Pilin TcpB Initiates Assembly and Retraction of the Toxin-Coregulated Pilus.

by Dixon Ng, Tony Harn, Tuba Altindal, Subramania Kolappan, Jarrad M Marles, Rajan Lala, Ingrid Spielman, Yang Gao, Caitlyn A Hauke, Gabriela Kovacikova, Zia Verjee, Ronald K Taylor, Nicolas Biais, Lisa Craig
Published 2016-12-01

c-di-GMP modulates type IV MSHA pilus retraction and surface attachment in Vibrio cholerae

by Kyle A. Floyd, Calvin K. Lee, Wujing Xian, Mahmoud Nametalla, Aneesa Valentine, Benjamin Crair, Shiwei Zhu, Hannah Q. Hughes, Jennifer L. Chlebek, Daniel C. Wu, Jin Hwan Park, Ali M. Farhat, Charles J. Lomba, Courtney K. Ellison, Yves V. Brun, Javier Campos-Gomez, Ankur B. Dalia, Jun Liu, Nicolas Biais, Gerard C. L. Wong, Fitnat H. Yildiz
Published 2020-03-01