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The PilF protein from the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus is a traffic ATPase powering the assembly of the DNA translocation machinery as well as of type 4 pili. Thereby PilF mediates the natural transformability of T. thermophilus. PilF contains a C-terminal ATPase domain and three N-terminal domains with partial homology to so-called general secretory pathway II (GSPII) domains. These three GSPII domains (GSPII-A, GSPII-B and GSPII-C) are essential for pilus assembly and twitching motility. They show varying degrees of sequence homology to the N-terminal domain of the ATPase MshE from Vibrio cholerae which binds the bacterial second messenger molecule c-di-GMP. NMR experiments demonstrate that the... More