| Bacterial colonization involves multiple factors, including fimbriae or pili, flagella, and surface polysaccharides. |
| The long fimbriae of the foliage leaf sheaths also help to distinguish this species from others in southeastern Brazil. |
| Salmonella cells produce fimbriae and cellulose that help them attach, colonize, and survive on the melon's surface. |
| But if the fimbriae grip too loosely, the bacteria will detach from the surface of a cell at the slightest joggle. |
| Shorter pili, usually referred to as fimbriae, are a structurally distinct group of extrusions which operate mostly in bacterial attachment to substrate or to other cells. |
| And until recently investigators could not analyze how such an effect might be operating at the scale of individual fimbriae. |
