Inverse relationship between pilus-mediated gonococcal adherence and surface expression of the pilus receptor, CD46
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CD46-independent binding of neisserial type IV pili and the major pilus adhesin, PilC, to human epithelial cells.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen which infects the human mucosal epithelium. An early critical event in neisserial infection is the type IV pilus-mediated adherence to the host cell. The PilC protein, located on the pilus tip, has earlier been identified as the major pilus adhesin. Previous studies suggested that the cell surface protein CD46 is a pilus receptor for N...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microbiology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1350-0872,1465-2080
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-8-2333