Type IV pili and twitching motility.

By John S. Mattick. Annual Review of Microbiology, 2002

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Stochastic mechano-chemical kinetics of molecular motors: A multidisciplinary enterprise from a physicist’s perspective (2012, background): “[972, 973, 978, 979, 980, 981, 532, 982] Suppose, polymerization of a pilus is energy-consuming whereas the depolymerization is a spontaneous process.”
How bacterial pathogens colonize their hosts and invade deeper tissues. (2015, background): “Type IV pili have the ability to retract through the bacterial cell wall, while the pilus tip remains attached to its target surface, allowing the so-called “twitching motility”, a flagella-independent mode of motility important for efficient colonization of host surfaces [35].”
Biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa wild type, flagella and type IV pili mutants (2003, background): “P. aeruginosa mutants inactivated in the major pilin subunit gene, pilA, are reported to be non-piliated (Mattick, 2002).”
DNA uptake during bacterial transformation (2004, background): “Several, if not all, proteins that participate in pilus assembly are known, but the biogenesis process itself is not yet clearly understoo”
A field guide to bacterial swarming motility (2010, neutral): “Twitching motility is a surface motility powered by the extension and retraction of type IV pili , which confers slow cell movement, often with a jerky or 'twitchy' appearanc”
Bacterial biofilms: from the Natural environment to infectious diseases (2004, background): “Although it is known that in some species single cells can actively move across surfaces through GLIDING OR TWITCHING MOTILITY”
PilZ domain is part of the bacterial c-di-GMP binding protein (2006, background): “Development of twitching motility in P.aeruginosa is governed by about 40 genes (Mattick, 2002).”
The Selective Value of Bacterial Shape (2006, background): “Bacteria that move by “twitching motility” extend pili from one end of the cell, attach to a surface via the tips of the pili, retract the pili, and then repeat the process, thereby pulling the cell body forward as you might extend and retract your arms to climb a ladder (36, 202).”