"Fimbriae, Bacterial" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Thin, hairlike appendages, 1 to 20 microns in length and often occurring in large numbers, present on the cells of gram-negative bacteria, particularly Enterobacteriaceae and Neisseria. Unlike flagella, they do not possess motility, but being protein (pilin) in nature, they possess antigenic and hemagglutinating properties. They are of medical importance because some fimbriae mediate the attachment of bacteria to cells via adhesins (ADHESINS, BACTERIAL). Bacterial fimbriae refer to common pili, to be distinguished from the preferred use of "pili", which is confined to sex pili (PILI, SEX).
| Descriptor ID |
D010861
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.180.285 A20.843
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| Concept/Terms |
Fimbriae, Bacterial- Fimbriae, Bacterial
- Fimbria, Bacterial
- Bacterial Fimbriae
- Pili, Common
- Common Fimbriae
- Fimbriae, Common
- Common Pilus
- Pilus, Common
- Common Pili
- Bacterial Fimbria
- Common Fimbria
- Fimbria, Common
Bacterial Pilus- Bacterial Pilus
- Bacterial Pili
- Pili, Bacterial
- Pilus, Bacterial
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fimbriae, Bacterial" by people in Profiles.
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Ribbe J, Baker AE, Euler S, O'Toole GA, Maier B. Role of Cyclic Di-GMP and Exopolysaccharide in Type IV Pilus Dynamics. J Bacteriol. 2017 Apr 15; 199(8).
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Luo Y, Zhao K, Baker AE, Kuchma SL, Coggan KA, Wolfgang MC, Wong GC, O'Toole GA. A hierarchical cascade of second messengers regulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa surface behaviors. MBio. 2015 Jan 27; 6(1).
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Beaussart A, Baker AE, Kuchma SL, El-Kirat-Chatel S, O'Toole GA, Dufrêne YF. Nanoscale adhesion forces of Pseudomonas aeruginosa type IV Pili. ACS Nano. 2014 Oct 28; 8(10):10723-33.