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Pilus

A pilus (Latin for 'hair'; pl.: pili) is a hair-like cell-surface appendage found on many bacteria and archaea. The terms pilus and fimbria (Latin for 'fringe'; plural: fimbriae) can be used interchangeably, although some researchers reserve the term pilus for the appendage required for bacterial conjugation. All conjugative pili are primarily composed…

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Pilus

Nodes69
Edges68
Triples48
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028986
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related to Virulence · 12
Pilus → Bordetella, Fimbriae, If, Nonpathogenic, Pili, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, The, Their, These, This, Vibrio
related to Conjugative pili · 10
Pilus → Conjugative, DNA, During, Escherichia, F-pilus, Not, Perhaps, The, They, Typically
related to Fimbriae · 9
Pilus → Fimbria, Fimbriae, GO, Indeed, Latin, The, The Gene Ontology, They, This
related to Transfer · 9
Pilus → DNA, F-like, F-pilus, IV, Like, P-like, T4SS, The Tra, They
related to External links · 7
Pilus → Bacterial, Fimbriae, Medicine Medical Subject Headings, MeSH, National Library, Proteins, Sex

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pili bacteria fimbriae type bacterial dna surface called many iv appendage different virulence transfer conjugative also archaea conjugation attach types

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that produced by flagellainstance ofas opposed to other forms of bacterial motility0.80text
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliConjugative0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliDNA0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliThey0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliPerhaps0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliF-pilus0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliEscherichia0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliDuring0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliTypically0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliThe0.60section
Pilusrelated to Conjugative piliNot0.60section
Pilusrelated to External linksSex0.60section

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