a: pilus ~
b: telescoping antenna
What:
"The end of the pilus has a sticky protein on it, so to continue our metaphor, the pilus is like a telescoping antenna with a blob of crazy glue on the end. A twitching cell extends its pilus, sticks it to something, then draws it back in"
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Date: Aug 26 2015 11:20 AM
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