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produces fimbria-like structures that are involved with the bacterium's adhesion to cellulose. The subunit protein has been identified in strain 8 (CbpC) and strain 20 (GP25) and both are type IV fimbrial (Pil) proteins. The presence of a locus that is organized similarly in both strains is reported here together with the results of an initial examination of a second Pil protein. Downstream of the / gene (hereafter referred to as ) is a second pilin gene (). Northern blot analysis of and transcripts showed that the transcript is much more abundant in 8, and real-time PCR was used to measure and transcript abundance in 20 and its adhesion-defective mutant D5. Similar to the findings with 8, the relative expression of in the wild-type strain was 73-fold higher than that of following growth with cellobiose, and there were only slight differences between the wild-type and mutant strain in and transcript abundances, indicating that neither nor transcription is adversely affected in the mutant strain. Western immunoblots showed that the PilA2 protein is localized primarily to the membrane fraction, and the anti-PilA2 antiserum does not inhibit bacterial adhesion to cellulose. These results suggest that the PilA2 protein plays a role in the synthesis and assembly of type IV fimbriae-like structures by , but its role is restricted to cell-associated functions, rather than as part of the externalized fimbrial structure.

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