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e-pili

4 notes carry this tag — 3 claims, 1 capture. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Geobacter's PilA pili are periplasmic secretory pseudopili, not the conductive nanowires
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · electromicrobiology, geobacter, microbial-nanowires, e-pili, cytochrome
• Lovley's group originally proposed Geobacter's conductive nanowires were PilA-based type IV pili ('e-pili')
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · electromicrobiology, geobacter, microbial-nanowires, e-pili, extracellular-electron-transfer
• Malvankar's lab published the structural work overturning the Geobacter pili-nanowire model without Lovley as co-author
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · electromicrobiology, geobacter, microbial-nanowires, e-pili, scientific-controversy
• Are Geobacter's conductive 'nanowires' protein pili or stacked cytochromes — and did Malvankar break from Lovley's pili model?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-16 · geobacter, microbial-nanowires, cytochrome, e-pili, extracellular-electron-transfer