Feature architecture aware phylogenetic profiling indicates a functional diversification of type IVa pili in the nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii

• Ruben Iruegas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Applied Bioinformatics Group, Inst of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6954-4397

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• Katharina Pfefferle,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology & Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Stephan Göttig,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Beate Averhoff,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Microbiology & Bioenergetics, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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• Ingo Ebersberger

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ebersberger@bio.uni-frankfurt.de

  Affiliations Applied Bioinformatics Group, Inst of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (S-BIK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (TBG), Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8187-9253

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