Type IV Pili
Acinetobacter baumannii Strain M2 Produces Type IV Pili Which Play a Role in Natural Transformation and Twitching Motility but Not Surface Associated Motility
... chaperone-usher type pilus, the acinetobactin-mediated iron acquisition system, and a secreted serine protease ...disease. Type IV pili (TFP) are multiprotein bacterial surface append- ages ...
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Are type IV pili involved in Vibrio anguillarum virulence towards sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L ) larvae?
... a type IV pilus system was previously reported to be potentially involved in the virulence of this bac- terium but no experimental evidence was re- ported ...another type IV pilus system ...
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Modulation of Kingella kingae Adherence to Human Epithelial Cells by Type IV Pili, Capsule, and a Novel Trimeric Autotransporter
... K. kingae produces a surface-associated polysaccharide capsule. The observation that type IV pili are required for Knh-mediated ad- herence suggested that K. kingae may express another surface factor ...
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pore Forming Exolysin and Type IV Pili Cooperate To Induce Host Cell Lysis
... for type IV pilus biogenesis, with two different Tn insertions within pilQ encoding the outer membrane secretin (36) and one insertion in pilW encoding a minor pilus subunit ...of type IV ...
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Intestinal adherence associated with type IV pili of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7
... adhesive type IV pili, which we term hemorrhagic coli pilus (HCP), composed of a 19-kDa pilin subunit (HcpA) that is encoded by the hcpA chromosomal ...the pili are produced in vivo during ...
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Type IV Pili Can Mediate Bacterial Motility within Epithelial Cells
... the type III secretion system (T3SS) of invasive ...either type IV pili (T4P) or T4P- dependent twitching motility (i) were defective in traversing cell multilayers, (ii) caused less pathology ...
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Reconstitution of a minimal machinery capable of assembling periplasmic type IV pili
... here). Type IV pilins are produced as prepilins with a dis- tinctive N-terminal class III signal peptide (2), consisting of a short hydrophilic leader peptide followed by a stretch of 21 hydrophobic ...
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A genetic and functional analysis of type IV pili produced by Aeromonas bacteria
... To assess the significance of Tap pili for Aeromonas virulence, the distribution of the tap genes was determined in Aeromonas reference strains including both pathogenic and non-pathogen[r] ...
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Traversal of a Polarized Epithelium by Pathogenic Neisseriae: Facilitation by Type IV Pili and Maintenance of Epithelial Barrier Function
... (1991) The role of pili in the interactions of pathogenic Neisseria with cultured human endothelial cells. Virji M, Makepeace K, Moxon ER[r] ...
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Type IV Pilus Secretins Have Extracellular C Termini
... ABSTRACT Type IV pili (T4Ps) are surface appendages used by Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens for motility and attachment to epithelial ...related type 2 secretion (T2S) sys- tem and ...
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Ordered and ushered; the assembly and translocation of the adhesive Type I and P Pili
... (CU) pili as distinct from structures which act as a tube for substrate transport from bacteria to host (see reviews on type III and type IV (including conjugative pili [7,8]) secretion ...
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Role of dpp-iv inhibitors in treatment of type ii diabetes
... Incretins are a group of gastrointestinal hormones that cause an increase in the amount of insulin released from the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans after eating, even before blood glucose levels become elevated. ...
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Identification of a Novel Conjugative Plasmid in Mycobacteria That Requires Both Type IV and Type VII Secretion
... Mycobacteria have a highly unusual cell envelope that differs from both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. The myco- bacterial cell envelope contains an outer membrane that is com- posed mainly of long-chain fatty ...
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FINDINGS OF FACT and FINAL ORDER TYPE IV APPEAL DECISION
... ▪ Type III Design Deviation to Section 17.90.120(D.7) to reduce the activated frontages on Buildings 1 and 4 as previously identified and approved by Planning Commission. The applicant also proposed to add ...
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Narrowband frequency drift structures in solar type IV bursts
... We have established the Zao Solar Radiospectrograph (ZSR), a new solar radio observation system, at the Zao observatory of Tohoku University, Japan. We observed narrowband fine structures with type IV bursts ...
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Type I Almost-Homogeneous Manifolds of Cohomogeneity One—IV
... We also obtained many K¨ ahler Einstein manifolds as well as Fano manifolds without K¨ ahler Einstein metric of type I in the fifth section in part II. The Futaki invariants are zero in our case since the ...
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Recent advances in the structural and molecular biology of type IV secretion systems
... breakthrough in the field of secretion, there are still a considerable number of questions in need of answers. Where do VirD4 and VirB11 fit in the bigger context of the entire machinery? What does it take to induce a ...
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Salter-Harris Type III and Type IV Combined Fracture of the Distal Femoral Epiphysis: A Case Report
... Distal femoral epiphysis comes up in the ninth week of the fetal life and is the only epiphysis with a visible ossific nucleus at birth. Also, it is the biggest and the fastest growing epiphysis of the body, and it ...
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Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by DPP-IV Inhibition – A Review
... A very recent study on DPP-IV inhibitory activity of Amaranthus hypochondriacus was reported by Velarde et al., in 2013 60 . Amaranthus seeds were reported to have DPP-IV inhibitory peptides which were ...
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Radioimmunoassay for the carboxy terminal cross linking domain of type IV (basement membrane) procollagen in body fluids Characterization and application to collagen type IV metabolism in fibrotic liver disease
... The carboxy-terminal cross-linking domain (NCl) of type IV procollagen was isolated from human placenta and used for the production of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies. Purity of the antigen and ...
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