Mechanical architecture and folding of E. coli type 1 pilus domains

Álvaro Alonso-Caballero, Jörg Schönfelder, Simon Poly, Fabiano Corsetti, David De Sancho, Emilio Artacho, Raúl Pérez‐Jiménez

Uropathogenic Escherichia coli attach to tissues using pili type 1. Each pilus is composed by thousands of coiled FimA domains followed by the domains of the...