Adhesins are proteins on the surface of living cells that allow the organism to colonize various surfaces and may refer to:
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Adhesin molecule (immunoglobulin -like)
In molecular biology, the adhesin molecule (immunoglobulin-like) is a protein domain. This domain is found in mucosal vascular addressin cell adhesion molecule 1 proteins (MAdCAM-1). These are cell adhesion molecules expressed on the endothelium ...
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Bacterial adhesin Bacterial adhesins are cell-surface components or appendages of bacteria that facilitate adhesion or adherence to other cells or to surfaces, usually in the host they are infecting or living in. Adhesins are a type of virulence factor.
Adherence is ...
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Fungal adhesin
Fungal adhesins are proteins located on the surface of fungal cells, specifically found on the outside of the cell wall. They allow fungi to colonize various substrates and to bind to host tissues. Adhesion to tissue is an obligatory first step in ...
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Adhesion (disambiguation)
Adhesion is the tendency of certain dissimilar molecules to cling together.
Adhesion may also refer to:
Biology
* Adhesion (medicine), a fibrous band that forms between tissues and organs
* Cell adhesion, the binding of a cell to another cel ...
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Cell adhesion
Cell adhesion is the process by which cells interact and attach to neighbouring cells through specialised molecules of the cell surface. This process can occur either through direct contact between cell surfaces such as Cell_junction, cell junc ...
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