Bacteria have developed a large array of motility mechanisms to exploit available resources
and environments. These mechanisms can be broadly classified into swimming in aqueous …

The surfaces of many bacteria are decorated with long, exquisitely thin appendages called
type IV pili (T4P), dynamic filaments that are rapidly polymerized and depolymerized from a …

The ability to split one cell into two is fundamental to all life, and many bacteria can
accomplish this feat several times per hour with high accuracy. Most bacteria call on an …

Background Since the introduction of what became today's standard for cryo-embedding of
biological macromolecules at native conditions more than 30 years ago, techniques and …

Myxococcus xanthus, like other myxobacteria, is a social bacterium that moves and feeds
cooperatively in predatory groups. On surfaces, rod-shaped vegetative cells move in search …

Natural transformation is a broadly conserved mechanism of horizontal gene transfer in
bacterial species that can shape evolution and foster the spread of antibiotic resistance …

Pili are crucial virulence factors for many Gram-negative pathogens. These surface
structures provide bacteria with a link to their external environments by enabling them to …

Since the beginning of electron microscopy, resolution has been a critical parameter. In this
article, we propose a fully automatic, accurate method for determining the local resolution of …

Motility often plays a decisive role in the survival of species. Five systems of motility have
been studied in depth: those propelled by bacterial flagella, eukaryotic actin polymerization …

The type III-E CRISPR–Cas7-11 effector binds a CRISPR RNA (crRNA) and the putative
protease Csx29 and catalyzes crRNA-guided RNA cleavage. We report cryo–electron …