Figure 2. Loci for fimbrial biosynthesis on the O157 Sakai chromosome. Structures of the 14 loci, each encoding a set of genes for fimbrial biosynthesis, are drawn to scale. Asterisks indicate the loci that are conserved in K-12, and crosses those partially conserved in K-12. Locus 7 and Locus 14 correspond to the K-12 loci for curli and typeI fimbriae, respectively. Locus 12 encodes fimbriae similar to the long polor fimbriae of Salmonella species.

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