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Adhesins are proteins on the surface of living cells that allow the organism to colonize various surfaces and may refer to: *
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 gene expression, expressed on ...
* Bacterial adhesin *
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 i ...


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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 cell ...
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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 junctions or indir ...
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