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Neisseria meningitidis Type IV Pili Composed of Sequence Invariable Pilins Are Masked by Multisite Glycosylation

The ability of pathogens to cause disease depends on their aptitude to escape the immune system. Type IV pili are extracellular filamentous virulence factors composed of pilin monomers and frequently expressed by bacterial pathogens. As such they are major targets for the host immune system. In the...

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Autores principales: Gault, Joseph, Ferber, Mathias, Machata, Silke, Imhaus, Anne-Flore, Malosse, Christian, Charles-Orszag, Arthur, Millien, Corinne, Bouvier, Guillaume, Bardiaux, Benjamin, Péhau-Arnaudet, Gérard, Klinge, Kelly, Podglajen, Isabelle, Ploy, Marie Cécile, Seifert, H. Steven, Nilges, Michael, Chamot-Rooke, Julia, Duménil, Guillaume
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4569582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26367394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1005162