Monthly Archives: July 2018
Expose-Ligate-Seal mechanism of bacterial pilus assembly
- July 25, 2018
- Science News@RCB
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Bacteria often assemble and use hair-likeorganelles known as pili or fimbriae on their cell surface to quickly and effectively mediate attachment to the host surfaces.This initial attachment is the critical event in bacterial colonization, which may benefit or harm the host depending on nature of their relationship.Dr. VengadesanKrishnan’s structural microbiology research group has begun structural […]
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