Planteome: Term Details for "type I pilus" (GO:0140621)

Accession: GO:0140621
Name: type I pilus
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: type 1 pilus, type I fimbriae, type I pili
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A short filamentous structure on the surface of a bacterial cell distinguished from other pili by their D-mannose-sensitive agglutinatination of erythrocytes. In E. coli, type I pili consist of a short tip fibrillum made up of the adhesin protein (FimH) and two minor subunits (FimG and FimF) that is joined to the pilus rod, a homopolymer of ~1000 FimA subunits. Source: PMID:28496159, PMID:29345620
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0140621 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to type I pilus.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to type I pilus.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for type I pilus.
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