3.4.23.43 medicine the pathogenicity island PAPI-1 may have evolved by acquisition of a conjugation system but because of its dependence on an essential chromosomal determinant, its transfer is restricted to Pseudomonas aeruginosa or other species capable of providing a functional prepilin peptidase 717727 3.4.23.43 synthesis scaled-up synthesis of PilD, followed by solubilization in dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside and chromatography, leads to a pure enzyme that retains its known biochemical activities -, 734649