pilus

proteinaceous hair-like appendage on the surface of bacteria ranging from 2-8 nm in diameter
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pilus

Summary

pilus is a cellular component[1]. pilus draws 156 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_component category, ranking #48 of 301).[2]

Key Facts

  • pilus's instance of is recorded as cellular component[3].
  • pilus's subclass of is recorded as cell projection[4].
  • pilus's Commons category is recorded as Pili[5].
  • pilus's has part is recorded as Type IV Pilin[6].
  • pilus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05zz1[7].
  • pilus's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0009289[8].
  • pilus's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • pilus's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/pilus[10].
  • pilus's different from is recorded as Pile[11].
  • pilus's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0009289[12].
  • pilus's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3139072[13].
  • pilus's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 174832134[14].
  • pilus's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 01904773-n[15].
  • pilus's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C174832134[16].

Why It Matters

pilus draws 156 Wikipedia views per month (cellular_component category, ranking #48 of 301).[2] pilus has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] pilus is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). pilus. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/pilus
MLA “pilus.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/pilus.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pilus_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pilus}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pilus}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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