flagellin

/ fləˈdʒɛlɪn /

noun

1. the structural protein of bacterial flagella

Example Sentences

The company’s scientists have described a strain of Enterococcus gallinarum, isolated from a healthy human gut, and its structural protein flagellin, which rouses the immune system by interacting with a receptor found on intestinal cells.

From Nature

Both TLR5 and Reg3γ help to limit early-life colonization by bacteria that express flagellin, which is a component of the flagellar structure that aids bacterial motility.

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Flagellin is found on some pathogenic bacteria, although not all bacteria that express flagellin are pathogenic.

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In wild-type mice, the intestinal colonization of the strain lacking flagellin was consistently higher than that of the strain that had flagellin.

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Fulde et al.1 report that the expression of the protein TLR5 in gut cells during a limited time window in early postnatal development in mice helps to reduce the presence of bacteria that express the protein flagellin.

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