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    Marzipan (redirect from Mazapán de pili)
    Philippines marzipan was brought from Spain, mazapán de pili (Spanish for "pili marzipan") is made from pili nuts. There are two proposed lines of origin for...
    28 KB (2,892 words) - 18:34, 31 May 2024
  • of phase variation. Type IV pili of Neisseria gonorrhoeae are controlled in this way. There are several copies of the gene coding for these pili (the...
    12 KB (1,657 words) - 12:34, 14 February 2023
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    Hair follicle (redirect from Telogen phase)
    Anatomically, the triad of hair follicle, sebaceous gland and arrector pili muscle make up the pilosebaceous unit. A hair follicle consists of : The...
    22 KB (2,619 words) - 22:57, 27 May 2024
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    antibiotics (Thayer–Martin). It exhibits antigenic variation through genetic recombination of its pili and surface proteins that interact with the immune...
    42 KB (4,576 words) - 20:11, 1 June 2024
  • of the mechanisms of antigenic escape. It is related to phase variation. Antigenic variation not only enables the pathogen to avoid the immune response...
    25 KB (3,270 words) - 05:30, 15 April 2024
  • mechanism by which the fim gene cluster, encoding Type I Pili, is transcriptionally controlled. These pili are virulence factors involved in adhesion, especially...
    5 KB (543 words) - 14:32, 24 December 2022
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    of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus is mediated by pili formation". Molecular Microbiology. 70 (4). Wiley: 938–952. doi:10.1111/j...
    38 KB (4,764 words) - 00:40, 19 May 2024
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    antigenic variation, which is observed primarily in surface-located molecules. The pathogenic species along with some commensal species, have type IV pili which...
    17 KB (1,736 words) - 17:37, 31 May 2024
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    Hair (redirect from Placoda pili)
    oil producing sebaceous gland which lubricates the hair and the arrector pili muscles, which are responsible for causing hairs to stand up. In humans with...
    73 KB (8,352 words) - 14:25, 28 May 2024
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    infects its host cells by sticking to them with long thin extensions called pili and the surface-exposed proteins Opa and Opc and has several virulence factors...
    41 KB (4,640 words) - 09:51, 25 May 2024
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    called conjugation pili or sex pili (see bacterial genetics, below). They can also generate movement where they are called type IV pili. Glycocalyx is produced...
    143 KB (15,517 words) - 01:42, 1 June 2024
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    and strategies to minimize heat loss: Using small smooth muscles (arrector pili in mammals), which are attached to feather or hair shafts; this distorts...
    55 KB (6,370 words) - 15:48, 21 May 2024
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    depends on the extension, attachment to a surface, and retraction of type IV pili which pull the cell forwards in a manner similar to the action of a grappling...
    109 KB (12,267 words) - 04:56, 1 January 2024
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    flagella but exhibit twitching or swarming motility, likely mediated by type IV pili. Motility in A. baumannii may also be due to the excretion of exopolysaccharide...
    49 KB (5,450 words) - 22:52, 30 March 2024
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    Gomti and Sai are its main parental rivers. Besides these, Varuna, Basuhi, Pili. Mamur and Gangi are the smaller rivers here. The rivers Gomti and Basuhi...
    27 KB (2,725 words) - 00:00, 24 May 2024
  • from where it diversified into archaella, Type IV Pili, Type II Secretion Systems, and the Tad pili. The first observations of what is now known to be...
    31 KB (3,642 words) - 19:08, 2 December 2023
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    Today. Archived from the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 21 July 2011. Pili, Unofre (9 September 2009). "Enceladus: Saturn′s Moon, Has Liquid Ocean of...
    115 KB (10,318 words) - 07:37, 30 May 2024
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    making the ancestor appear larger and scaring off predators. The arrector pili (muscle that connects the hair follicle to connective tissue) contracts and...
    32 KB (3,876 words) - 05:01, 7 May 2024
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    Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutants showed that twitching motility by type IV pili contributes to the organism’s ability to aggregate on substrates. Another...
    37 KB (3,886 words) - 13:03, 10 May 2024
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    exposure induces pili formation and cellular aggregation. Cells with the ability to aggregate have greater survival than mutants lacking pili that are unable...
    106 KB (11,849 words) - 11:32, 30 May 2024
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