"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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| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fimbriae, Bacterial" by people in Profiles.
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Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Rice PA. Biology of the Gonococcus: Disease and Pathogenesis. Methods Mol Biol. 2019; 1997:1-27.
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Boll EJ, Ayala-Lujan J, Szabady RL, Louissaint C, Smith RZ, Krogfelt KA, Nataro JP, Ruiz-Perez F, McCormick BA. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Adherence Fimbriae Drive Inflammatory Cell Recruitment via Interactions with Epithelial MUC1. mBio. 2017 06 06; 8(3).
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Tan Y, Adhikari RY, Malvankar NS, Pi S, Ward JE, Woodard TL, Nevin KP, Xia Q, Tuominen MT, Lovley DR. Synthetic Biological Protein Nanowires with High Conductivity. Small. 2016 Sep; 12(33):4481-5.
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Klinzing DC, Ishmael N, Hotopp JCD, Tettelin H, Shields KR, Madoff LC, Puopolo KM. The two-component response regulator LiaR regulates cell wall stress responses, pili expression and virulence in group B Streptococcus. Microbiology (Reading). 2013 Jul; 159(Pt 7):1521-1534.
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Basset A, Zhang F, Benes C, Sayeed S, Herd M, Thompson C, Golenbock DT, Camilli A, Malley R. Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 mediates inflammatory responses to oligomerized RrgA pneumococcal pilus type 1 protein. J Biol Chem. 2013 Jan 25; 288(4):2665-75.
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Boll EJ, McCormick BA. A new understanding of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli as an inflammatory pathogen. Cell Adh Migr. 2012 Sep-Oct; 6(5):413-8.
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Boll EJ, Struve C, Sander A, Demma Z, Nataro JP, McCormick BA, Krogfelt KA. The fimbriae of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli induce epithelial inflammation in vitro and in a human intestinal xenograft model. J Infect Dis. 2012 Sep 01; 206(5):714-22.
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Richter LV, Sandler SJ, Weis RM. Two isoforms of Geobacter sulfurreducens PilA have distinct roles in pilus biogenesis, cytochrome localization, extracellular electron transfer, and biofilm formation. J Bacteriol. 2012 May; 194(10):2551-63.
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Blom AM, Ram S. Contribution of interactions between complement inhibitor C4b-binding protein and pathogens to their ability to establish infection with particular emphasis on Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Vaccine. 2008 Dec 30; 26 Suppl 8:I49-55.
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Davey M, Liu X, Ukai T, Jain V, Gudino C, Gibson FC, Golenbock D, Visintin A, Genco CA. Bacterial fimbriae stimulate proinflammatory activation in the endothelium through distinct TLRs. J Immunol. 2008 Feb 15; 180(4):2187-95.