Polymorphisms of a Collagen-Like Adhesin Contributes to <i>Legionella pneumophila</i> Adhesion, Biofilm Formation Capacity and Clinical Prevalence.

The complementation of the Lp02Δ lcl strain with lcl isoforms of 18, 14, 13, or 11 repeats could also rescue sedimentation and, importantly, the sedimentation capacity of the chimeric strains showed a positive trend between the number of tandem repeats encoded in the lcl alleles ( Figure 6B,C ).

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