… 1b. One possible scenario could be that the pilin PilE and the pseudopilin ComP of N.
gonorrhoeae form retractable short pseudopili-like DNA translocators that span the periplasm. …

… pneumoniae, Streptococcus sanguis and B. subtilis, … specifically in competent cultures of
B. subtilis and found to … Recently, it was shown that in transformable B. subtilis cells RecN …

Extremophilic prokaryotes inhabit ecosystems that are, from a human perspective, extreme,
and life in these environments requires far-reaching cellular adaptations. Here, we will …

… (A and B) Tomographic slices show closeup views of the T4P machinery with assembled pili
(… Averhoff B. 2009. Shuffling genes around in hot environments: the unique DNA transporter …

… C8 cells (B) were mixed at a ratio of 10:1, spotted onto an LB-agar plates and incubated for
… Mean difference between wild-type and single (A) or double mutants (B) was not significant. …

… S1A and B in the supplemental material). Growth of the tonB3 mutants was rescued by
constitutive … 2A and B) and by the exogenous provision of 100 μM FeCl 3 (Fig. 2C and S1C), even …

… (B) Comparison of the genetic organization of the pilQ cluster in different gram-negative
proteobacteria and nonproteobacteria. The Thermus ORFs orf559, orf566, and orf567 encode …

The mesophile Acinetobacter sp. strain BD413 and the extreme thermophile Thermus
thermophilus HB27 display high frequencies of natural transformation. In this study we identified …

Rhodococcus erythropolis BD2, which is able to utilize isopropylbenzene as a sole carbon
and energy source, was shown to contain a conjugative linear plasmid, pBD2. The estimated …

… -phase analytical column (Thermo Fisher) over a 60 min organic gradient, (1–50% solvent
B over 45 min, 50–90% B over 0.5 min, held at 90% B for 4.5 min and then reduced to 1% …