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Many bacteria produce proteins called adhesins, which protrude from their membranes and help the bacteria stick to any cell it might encounter, giving it a chance to invade that cell.

The benefits of this 'stickiness' would seem obvious: it greatly enhances the odds that a bacterium is able to successfully invade a host cell, and reproduce. This is true even for bacteria that have some form of locomotion, such as a flagellum (in fact, flagella can, to some degree, function as adhesives).

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