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Articles 2 records found  
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26 p, 2.9 MB Structure-guided mutations in the terminal organelle protein MG491 cause major motility and morphologic alterations on mycoplasma genitalium / Martinelli, Luca (Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona) ; Garcia-Morales, Luis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí") ; Querol Murillo, Enrique (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí") ; Piñol Ribas, Jaume, dir. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular) ; Fita, Ignacio (Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona) ; Calisto, Bárbara Luísa Machado (Universidade do Porto. Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular)
The emergent human pathogen Mycoplasma genitalium, with one of the smallest genomes among cells capable of growing in axenic cultures, presents a flask-shaped morphology due to a protrusion of the cell membrane, known as the terminal organelle, that is involved in cell adhesion and motility and is an important virulence factor of this microorganism. [...]
2016 - 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005533
PLOS pathogens, Vol. 12 issue 4 (2016) , art. e1005533  
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9 p, 2.4 MB Quantitative Assessment of Mycoplasma Hemadsorption Activity by Flow Cytometry / Garcia-Morales, Luis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí") ; Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Luis 1987- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí") ; Costa García, Manuela (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Servei de Cultius Cel·lulars, Producció d'Anticossos i Citometria) ; Querol Murillo, Enrique (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí") ; Piñol Ribas, Jaume, dir. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular)
A number of adherent mycoplasmas have developed highly complex polar structures that are involved in diverse aspects of the biology of these microorganisms and play a key role as virulence factors by promoting adhesion to host cells in the first stages of infection. [...]
2014 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0087500
PloS one, Vol. 9 Issue 1 (January 2014) , p. e87500  

Research literature 1 records found  
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148 p, 4.8 MB Role of MG491 protein in the motile machinery of Mycoplasma genitalium / Garcia-Morales, Luis ; Querol Murillo, Enrique, dir. ; Pinyol Ribas, Jaume, dir. ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular
Mycoplasma genitalium és un patogen de transmissió sexual emergent. Aquest bacteri sense paret cel·lular causa uretritis, a més d'altres malalties inflamatòries genitals. Aquest microorganisme utilitza adhesines especialitzades i localitzades a l'organela terminal per adherir-se a cèl·lules hoste i altres superfícies. [...]
Mycoplasma genitalium is an emerging human sexually transmitted pathogen. This cell-wall less bacterium causes urethritis and other genital inflammatory diseases. This microorganism uses specialized adhesins located at the terminal organelle to adhere to host cells and surfaces. [...]

Bellaterra : Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2015  

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