Curli are the major proteinaceous component of a complex extracellular matrix produced by
many Enterobacteriaceae. Curli were first discovered in the late 1980s on Escherichia coli …

Bacteria are nutritionally starved most of the time and maintain fast growth rates during
availability, surviving prolonged periods of starvation as a result of elaborate physiological …

Amyloid is associated with debilitating human ailments including Alzheimer's and prion
diseases. Biochemical, biophysical, and imaging analyses revealed that fibers produced by …

The σS (RpoS) subunit of RNA polymerase is the master regulator of the general stress
response in Escherichia coli and related bacteria. While rapidly growing cells contain very …

Mouse-virulent Salmonella typhimurium strains SR-11 and ATCC 14028-1s express curli
fibers, thin aggregative fibers, at ambient temperature on plates as judged by Western blot …

Many bacteria assemble extracellular amyloid fibers on their cell surface. Secretion of
proteins across membranes and the assembly of complex macromolecular structures must …

Classical laboratory strains of Escherichia coli do not spontaneously colonize inert surfaces.
However, when maintained in continuous culture for evolution studies or industrial …

A colony morphology type is described in which cells of Salmonella typhimurium form a rigid
multicellular network with expression of thin aggregative fimbriae that mediate tight …

This work was performed to establish a model describing bacterial surface structures
involved in biofilm development, in curli‐overproducing Escherichia coli K‐12 strains, at 30° …

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) belong to the most common infectious diseases worldwide.
The most frequently isolated pathogen from uncomplicated UTIs is Escherichia coli. To …