Sentences with phrase «called pili»

Viola Krukenberg adds: «We found all genes necessary for biosynthesis of the cellular connections called pili.

The bacteria use these fingers, called pili, to adhere to surfaces or weave into films or recognize objects in the environment.

Many kinds of bacteria create so - called pili fibers, including the Escherichia coli responsible for urinary tract infections and the Yersinia pestis bacteria that cause bubonic plague.

Now, a new study reported this month in mBio shows that rather than using sperm as a surfboard, N. gonorrhoeae bacteria shoot cables — called pili — onto proteins in the semen to tow themselves through coital liquid.

The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae controls mechanical interactions among cells with extensions called pili.

For years, the prevailing hypothesis was that these were a form of tiny hairs called pili, similar to those found on other types of bacteria.

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«Piri - piri» means «pepper - pepper» in Swahili, the pan-African language, and sometimes the chile is called «pili - pili.»

With more than one billion cases each year, hundreds of thousands of deaths can be attributed to this bacterial disease which is caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), invading the small intestine using arm - like structures called «pili.»

Within a hair follicle, there are stem cells that reside in an area called the hair follicle «bulge,» which is a small compartment located where the outer root sheath meets the arrector pili muscle (see Hair Follicle figure).

The appendages include claws, sebaceous glands that lubricate the skin and hair, and tiny muscles called arrector pili that can make the hair stand on end (see Figure 1).

But bacteria can do something else we can't do — they can transmit genes to one another with appendages called sex pili, which can penetrate the receiving bacterium's membrane and inject tiny pieces of DNA inside.