Abstract

Bacterial pill assembled by the chaperone-usher pathway can mediate microbial attachment, an early step in the establishment of an infection, by binding specifically to sugars present in host tissues. Recent work has begun to reveal the structural basis both of chaperone function in the biogenesis of these pili and of bacterial attachment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)548-556
Number of pages9
JournalCurrent Opinion in Structural Biology
Volume10
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000

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