Fimbriae are surface appendages that allow a bacterium to stick to a surface.
What is fimbriae?
- Fimbriae are defined as the long filamentous polymeric protein structures located at the surface of bacterial cells.
- They enable the bacteria to bind to specific receptor structures and thereby colonize specific surfaces.
- A bordering fringe especially at the entrance of the fallopian tubes.
- A join of nerve fibers bordering the hippocampus and joining the fornix.
- The fimbriae are a smaller version of pili.
- They are short appendages-like structures present on the surface of the cell wall of many gram-negative bacteria.
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