Discovery of fibrillar adhesins across bacterial species

Abstract Background Fibrillar adhesins are long multidomain proteins that form filamentous structures at the cell surface of bacteria. They are an important yet understudied class of proteins composed of adhesive and stalk domains that mediate interactions of bacteria with their environment. This st...

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Main Authors: Vivian Monzon, Aleix Lafita, Alex Bateman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07586-2