 Pili, Sex
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Filamentous or elongated proteinaceous structures which extend from the cell surface in gram-negative bacteria that contain certain types of conjugative plasmid. These pili are the organs associated with genetic transfer and have essential roles in conjugation. Normally, only one or a few pili occur on a given donor cell. (From Singleton & Sainsbury, Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed, p675) This preferred use of "pili" refers to the sexual appendage, to be distinguished from bacterial fimbriae (FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL), also known as common pili, which are usually concerned with adhesion.
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D018933
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.180.690 A20.867
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| Concept/Terms |
Pili, Sex- Pili, Sex
- Pili, Conjugative
- Sex Pili
- Conjugative Pili
- Conjugative Pilus
- Pilus, Conjugative
- Sex Pilus
- Pilus, Sex
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Aho EL, Urwin R, Batcheller AE, Holmgren AM, Havig K, Kulakoski AM, Vomhof EE, Longfors NS, Erickson CB, Anderson ZK, Dawlaty JM, Mueller JJ. Neisserial pilin genes display extensive interspecies diversity. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2005 Aug 15; 249(2):327-34.
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Campbell AP, Bautista DL, Tripet B, Wong WY, Irvin RT, Hodges RS, Sykes BD. Solution secondary structure of a bacterially expressed peptide from the receptor binding domain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pili strain PAK: A heteronuclear multidimensional NMR study. Biochemistry. 1997 Oct 21; 36(42):12791-801.
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Sheth HB, Glasier LM, Ellert NW, Cachia P, Kohn W, Lee KK, Paranchych W, Hodges RS, Irvin RT. Development of an anti-adhesive vaccine for Pseudomonas aeruginosa targeting the C-terminal region of the pilin structural protein. Biomed Pept Proteins Nucleic Acids. 1995; 1(3):141-8.
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