Some phages make use of bacterial pili by attaching to them and allowing bacteria to reel the phage to the surface, where the phage can start infecting the bacteria. In their study, co-first ...

Caption This video shows a pilus shoot out from the bacterial cell to latch onto a piece of DNA. The image on the right shows the bacteria and pilus in green and the DNA in red. The image on the ...

This attachment is made possible by specific bacterial pili, long thin protein fibers on the bacterial surface that end in ...