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External Stresses Affect Gonococcal Type 4 Pilus Dynamics
Bacterial type 4 pili (T4P) are extracellular polymers that serve both as adhesins and molecular motors. Functionally, they are involved in adhesion, colony formation, twitching motility, and horizontal gene transfer. T4P of the human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae have been shown to enhance surviva...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8914258/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283813 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.839711 |