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References to the literature about adhesive pili

This page is still under development, as you might guess from the number of references.

Holmgren A & Branden CI: Crystal structure of chaperone protein PapD reveals an immunoglobulin fold. Nature 1989, 342:248- 251.

Hultgren SJ, Abraham S, Caparon M, Falk P, St Geme III JW & Normark S: Pilus and Nonpilus Bacterial Adhesins: Assembly and Function in Cell Recognition. Cell 1993, 73:1-20.

Jones CH, Pinkner JS, Nicholes AV, Slonim LN, Abraham SN & Hultgren SJ: FimC is a periplasmic PapD-like chaperone that directs assembly of type 1 pili in bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 1993, 90:8397-8401.

Kuehn MJ, Ogg DJ, Kihlberg J, Slonim LN, Flemmer K, Bergfors T & Hultgren SJ: Structural Basis of Pilus Subunit Recognition by the PapD Chapeone. Science 1993, 262:1234-1241.



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