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Sex Pili

Known as: Pilus, Conjugative, Sex Pilus, Conjugative Pili 
Filamentous or elongated proteinaceous structures which extend from the cell surface in gram-negative bacteria that contain certain types of… 
National Institutes of Health

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Adhesins, BacterialBacteriaBacterial PilusConjugation, Genetic

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Bacterial Fimbria

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2011
2011
Characterization of the Porphyromonas gingivalis conjugative transposon CTnPg1: determination of the integration site and the genes essential for conjugal transfer.
In our previous study, extensive genomic rearrangements were found in two strains of the Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium… 
2010
2010
Simple Sequence Repeats and Genome Plasticity in Streptococcus agalactiae
ABSTRACT Simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and their role in phase variation have been extensively studied in Gram-negative… 
2008
2008
Phenotypes of the ovarian follicular basal lamina predict developmental competence of oocytes
BACKGROUND The ovarian follicular basal lamina underlies the epithelial membrana granulosa and maintains the avascular intra… 
2004
2004
Update on detection, morphology and fragility in pili annulati in three kindreds
Background  Pili annulati is an inherited hair shaft abnormality with a wide range of clinical expression. 
2002
2002
Development of an In Vitro Integration Assay for the Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon CTnDOT
ABSTRACT Integrated self-transmissible elements called conjugative transposons (CTns) are responsible for the transfer of… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Structure-function analysis of the adherence-binding domain on the pilin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains PAK and KB7.
The pili of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mediate bacterial binding to human epithelial cell surfaces. We have previously shown that a… 
1994
1994
Characterization of a new type of Bacteroides conjugative transposon, Tcr Emr 7853
Results of previous investigations suggested that the conjugative transposons found in human colonic Bacteroides species were all… 
1989
1989
A stable core region of the tra operon mRNA of plasmid R1-19.
The degradation of the polycistronic tra-mRNA of the resistance plasmid R1-19 leads to the accumulation of a well defined series… 
1989
1989
Structure and function of conjugative pili: inducible synthesis of functional F pili by Escherichia coli K-12 containing a lac-tra operon fusion
In vivo and in vitro recombination methods were used to construct the recombinant plasmid pTG801, in which the F-plasmid DNA… 
1981
1981
Nature of the Carbohydrate and Phosphate Associated with ColB2 and EDP208 Pilin
Studies were carried out to elucidate the nature of phosphate and sugar linkages to F-like conjugative pili encoded by the… 
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