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  • Domain shuffling of a highly mutable ligand binding fold drives adhesin generation across the bacterial kingdom

    9 days ago - By Wiley

    Abstract
    Bacterial fibrillar adhesins are specialised extracellular polypeptides that promote the attachment of bacteria to the surfaces of other cells or materials. Adhesin-mediated interactions are critical for the establishment and persistence of stable bacterial populations within diverse environmental niches and are important determinants of virulence. The fibronectin binding fibrillar adhesin CshA, and its paralogue CshB, play important roles in host colonisation by the oral commensal and opportunistic pathogen Streptococcus gordonii. As paralogues are often catalysts for functional...
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