Sentences with phrase «between pili»
By means of targeted genetic modifications, the research team succeeded in steering the degree of entanglement between pili and hence the interaction forces between cells.
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These rod - shaped structures function like grappling hooks between cells: the pili of different cells get caught and then shortened.
Only when methane is added as energy source these genes are activated and pili are formed between bacteria and archaea.»
While nonpiliated meningococcal isolates have been previously found in carriage strains, this is the first evidence of an association between type IV pili from meningococci and a proinflammatory epithelial response.