Human Neutrophil’S Chemotaxis and Intracellular Killing in Response to Type 1 Piliated Uropathogenic Escherichia Coli [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2007 Introduction: Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), the commonest cause of urinary tract infections, bind to target cells and phagocytes via several distinct pairs of adhesins and receptors.
N Nooritalab, SH Najar Peerayeh
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In silico analysis of usher encoding genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae and characterization of their role in adhesion and colonization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Chaperone/usher (CU) assembly pathway is used by a wide range of Enterobacteriaceae to assemble adhesive surface structures called pili or fimbriae that play a role in bacteria-host cell interactions.
Fida Khater +5 more
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Microorganisms, 2021 Pathogens are exposed to a multitude of harmful conditions imposed by the environment of the host. Bacterial responses against these stresses are pivotal for successful host colonization and pathogenesis. In the case of many E.
Hicham Bessaiah +3 more
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Suppression of type 1 pilus assembly in uropathogenic Escherichia coli by chemical inhibition of subunit polymerization [PDF]
, 2013 OBJECTIVES: To identify and to characterize small-molecule inhibitors that target the subunit polymerization of the type 1 pilus assembly in uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC).
A.W. Edith Chan +64 more
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Stochastic chain termination in bacterial pilus assembly
Nature Communications, 2023 Adhesive type 1 pili from uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains are filamentous, supramolecular protein complexes consisting of a short tip fibrillum and a long, helical rod formed by up to several thousand copies of the major pilus subunit FimA.
Christoph Giese +7 more
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Structural diversity in the type IV pili of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter [PDF]
, 2016 Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative coccobacillus found primarily in hospital settings that has recently emerged as a source of hospital-acquired infections. A.
Feldman, Mario F +10 more
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Functional role of the type 1 pilus rod structure in mediating host-pathogen interactions
eLife, 2018 Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC), which cause urinary tract infections (UTI), utilize type 1 pili, a chaperone usher pathway (CUP) pilus, to cause UTI and colonize the gut.
Caitlin N Spaulding +12 more
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Bacteria Use Type IV Pili to Walk Upright and Detach from Surfaces [PDF]
, 2010 1. Department of Bioengineering, California Nano Systems Institute,University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA. 2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA. 3.
Conrad, Jacinta C. +5 more
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The relay network of Geobacter biofilms [PDF]
, 2018 While actual models explaining electron conduction in electricity producing biofilms have evolved separately to apparent irreconcilable conceptual positions, finding cytochrome complexes in the external matrix of Geobacter biofilms supports the proposal ...
Busalmen, Juan Pablo +3 more
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FrzS regulates social motility in Myxococcus xanthus by controlling exopolysaccharide production. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Myxococcus xanthus Social (S) motility occurs at high cell densities and is powered by the extension and retraction of Type IV pili which bind ligands normally found in matrix exopolysaccharides (EPS).
James E Berleman +5 more
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