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    Species-Specific Recognition of <em>Sulfolobales</em> Mediated by UV-Inducible Pili and S-Layer Glycosylation Patterns
    Research Article | Molecular Biology and Physiology
    Species-Specific Recognition of Sulfolobales Mediated by UV-Inducible Pili and S-Layer Glycosylation Patterns

    Type IV pili can be found on the cell surface of many archaea and bacteria where they play important roles in different processes. The UV-inducible pili system of Sulfolobales (Ups) pili from the crenarchaeal Sulfolobales species are essential in establishing species-specific mating partners, thereby assisting in genome stability. With this work, we show that different Sulfolobus species have specific regions...

    Marleen van Wolferen, Asif Shajahan, Kristina Heinrich, Susanne Brenzinger, Ian M. Black, Alexander Wagner, Ariane Briegel, Parastoo Azadi, Sonja-Verena Albers
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