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==Cryo-EM reconstruction of CFA/I pili==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[6nrv]] is a 13 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli Escherichia coli]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=6NRV OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=6NRV FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">Electron Microscopy, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 4&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=6nrv FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=6nrv OCA], [https://pdbe.org/6nrv PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=6nrv RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/6nrv PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=6nrv ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/FMC1_ECOLX FMC1_ECOLX] Fimbriae (also called pili), polar filaments radiating from the surface of the bacterium to a length of 0.5-1.5 micrometers and numbering 100-300 per cell, enable bacteria to colonize the epithelium of specific host organs.

==See Also==
*[[Colonization factor antigen|Colonization factor antigen]]
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[[Category: Escherichia coli]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Andersson M]]
[[Category: Bullitt E]]
[[Category: Egelman EH]]
[[Category: Zheng W]]