Fimbriae, Bacterial
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Thin, hairlike appendages, 1 to 20 microns in length and often occurring in large numbers, present on the cells of gram-negative bacteria, particularly Enterobacteriaceae and Neisseria. Unlike flagella, they do not possess motility, but being protein (pilin) in nature, they possess antigenic and hemagglutinating properties. They are of medical importance because some fimbriae mediate the attachment of bacteria to cells via adhesins (ADHESINS, BACTERIAL). Bacterial fimbriae refer to common pili, to be distinguished from the preferred use of "pili", which is confined to sex pili (PILI, SEX).
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D010861
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MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.180.285 A20.843
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Concept/Terms |
Fimbriae, Bacterial- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Fimbria, Bacterial
- Bacterial Fimbriae
- Pili, Common
- Common Fimbriae
- Fimbriae, Common
- Common Pilus
- Pilus, Common
- Common Pili
- Bacterial Fimbria
- Common Fimbria
- Fimbria, Common
Bacterial Pilus- Bacterial Pilus
- Bacterial Pili
- Pili, Bacterial
- Pilus, Bacterial
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1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fimbriae, Bacterial" by people in Profiles.
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Fiebig A. Role of Caulobacter Cell Surface Structures in Colonization of the Air-Liquid Interface. J Bacteriol. 2019 09 15; 201(18).
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Tytgat HL, Douillard FP, Reunanen J, Rasinkangas P, Hendrickx AP, Laine PK, Paulin L, Satokari R, de Vos WM. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Outcompetes Enterococcus faecium via Mucus-Binding Pili: Evidence for a Novel and Heterospecific Probiotic Mechanism. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2016 10 01; 82(19):5756-62.
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Coyne MJ, Comstock LE. A New Pillar in Pilus Assembly. Cell. 2016 Apr 21; 165(3):520-1.
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Hendrickx AP, van Schaik W, Willems RJ. The cell wall architecture of Enterococcus faecium: from resistance to pathogenesis. Future Microbiol. 2013 Aug; 8(8):993-1010.
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Chang C, Huang IH, Hendrickx AP, Ton-That H. Visualization of Gram-positive bacterial pili. Methods Mol Biol. 2013; 966:77-95.
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Hendrickx AP, Poor CB, Jureller JE, Budzik JM, He C, Schneewind O. Isopeptide bonds of the major pilin protein BcpA influence pilus structure and bundle formation on the surface of Bacillus cereus. Mol Microbiol. 2012 Jul; 85(1):152-63.
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Schneewind O, Missiakas DM. Protein secretion and surface display in Gram-positive bacteria. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2012 Apr 19; 367(1592):1123-39.
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Reunanen J, von Ossowski I, Hendrickx AP, Palva A, de Vos WM. Characterization of the SpaCBA pilus fibers in the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Apr; 78(7):2337-44.
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Harfouche C, Filippini S, Gianfaldoni C, Ruggiero P, Moschioni M, Maccari S, Pancotto L, Arcidiacono L, Galletti B, Censini S, Mori E, Giuliani M, Facciotti C, Cartocci E, Savino S, Doro F, Pallaoro M, Nocadello S, Mancuso G, Haston M, Goldblatt D, Barocchi MA, Pizza M, Rappuoli R, Masignani V. RrgB321, a fusion protein of the three variants of the pneumococcal pilus backbone RrgB, is protective in vivo and elicits opsonic antibodies. Infect Immun. 2012 Jan; 80(1):451-60.
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Zahavi EE, Lieberman JA, Donnenberg MS, Nitzan M, Baruch K, Rosenshine I, Turner JR, Melamed-Book N, Feinstein N, Zlotkin-Rivkin E, Aroeti B. Bundle-forming pilus retraction enhances enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infectivity. Mol Biol Cell. 2011 Jul 15; 22(14):2436-47.
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