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Evolutionary insight into the functional amyloids of the pseudomonads.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Dueholm Morten S, Otzen Daniel, Nielsen Per Halkjær
Abstract excerpt
Functional bacterial amyloids (FuBA) are important components in many environmental biofilms where they provide structural integrity to the biofilm, mediate bacterial aggregation and may function as virulence factor by binding specifically to host cell molecules. A novel FuBA system, the Fap syst...
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