title: Lifting the lid on pilus assembly.
abstract: A combination of computer simulations, evolutionary analysis and graph theory has provided new insights into the assembly of pili on the surface of bacteria.
authors.affiliation: Han Remaut is in the VIB Structural Biology Research Center, Brussels, Belgium and is in the Structural Biology Brussels Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium han.remaut@vib-vub.be.
authors.forename: Han
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Remaut
authors.affiliation: Nir Ben-Tal is in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel bental@tauex.tau.ac.il.
authors.forename: Nir
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ben-Tal
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism*; D015640:Ion Channel Gating; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D001426:Bacterial Proteins
keywords: E. coli; biophysics; dynamics; evolution; outer membrane protein; structural biology; structure