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Infect Immun, April 1998, p. 1759-1763, Vol. 66, No. 4
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Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

MrpB Functions as the Terminator for Assembly of Proteus mirabilis Mannose-Resistant Proteus-Like Fimbriae

Xin Li and Harry L. T. Mobley*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Received 17 November 1997/Returned for modification 30 December 1997/Accepted 22 January 1998

Insertional mutagenesis studies of mrpB, a putative pilin-encoding open reading frame of the mrp gene cluster, which encodes mannose-resistant Proteus-like (MR/P) fimbriae of Proteus mirabilis, indicate that MrpB functions as the terminator for fimbrial assembly.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 655 W. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21201. Phone: (410) 706-0466. Fax: (410) 706-2129. E-mail: hmobley{at}umaryland.edu.




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