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Sortase-mediated pilus fiber biogenesis in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Structure (London, England : 1993) - 10 Dec 2008
Manzano Clothilde, Contreras-Martel Carlos, El Mortaji Lamya, Izoré Thierry, Fenel Daphna, Vernet Thierry, Schoehn Guy, Di Guilmi Anne Marie, Dessen Andréa
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a piliated pathogen whose ability to circumvent vaccination and antibiotic treatment strategies is a cause of mortality worldwide. Pili play important roles in pneumococcal infection, but little is known about their biogenesis mechanism or the relationship between comp...
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