Article
A key role for type 1 pili in enterobacterial communicability.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Mar 1992
Bloch C A, Stocker B A, Orndorff P E
Abstract excerpt
Up to 80% of faecal Escherichia coli strains are able to produce type 1 pili. These filamentous bacterial surface organelles, which mediate mannose-sensitive attachment to mammalian epithelial cells, are also conserved throughout the Enterobacteriaceae. As a potential explanation for their prevalence among intestinal isolates of enteric bacteria, it has been widely speculated that type 1 pili are important for...
Topics
- Animals
- Escherichia coli
- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Mutation
- Oropharynx
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
- Rectum