Viral protein involved in interaction with bacterial conjugative F-pili, which are retractile filaments that protrude from gram-negative bacteria and normally mediate horizontal gene transfer. Binding to the pilus is followed by retraction of the pilus, which brings the bacteriophage in contact with the host cell membrane. Examples of bacteriophages which utilize the host-cell pilus as an attachment structure are bacteriophages M13, f1, fd, R17, Qbeta, Pf1, Pf3, phiKMV or phi6.
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Viral protein involved in interaction with bacterial conjugative F-pili, which are retractile filaments that protrude from gram-negative bacteria and normally mediate horizontal gene transfer. Binding to the pilus is followed by retraction of the pilus, which brings the bacteriophage in contact with the host cell membrane. Examples of bacteriophages which utilize the host-cell pilus as an attachment structure are bacteriophages M13, f1, fd, R17, Qbeta, Pf1, Pf3, phiKMV or phi6.
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Pilus-mediated viral adsorption onto host cell
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