P pili in uropathogenic E. coli are composite fibres with distinct fibrillar adhesive tips.

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P pili in uropathogenic E. coli are composite fibres with distinct fibrillar adhesive tips.

Nature - 19 Mar 1992

Kuehn M J, Heuser J, Normark S, Hultgren S J

Abstract excerpt

Escherichia coli is a frequent cause of several common bacterial infections in humans and animals, including urinary tract infections, bacteraemia and bacteria-related diarrhoea and is also the main cause of neonatal meningitis. Microbial attachment to surfaces is a key event in colonization and infection and results mainly from a stereochemical fit between microbial adhesins and complementary receptors on host...

Topics

Adhesins, Escherichia coli
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
Carbohydrate Sequence
Cloning, Molecular
Epithelium
Escherichia coli
Fimbriae, Bacterial
Microscopy, Electron
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Operon

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Plasmids

Polymerase Chain Reaction

Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid

Restriction Mapping

Urinary Tract

Urinary Tract Infections

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PMID: 1348107
DOI: 10.1038/356252a0

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