Identification of Surprisingly Diverse Type IV Pili, across a Broad Range of Gram-Positive Bacteria

• Saheed Imam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Saheed Imam, Zhongqiang Chen

  Current address: Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology and the Graduate Program in Genomics and Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Zhongqiang Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Saheed Imam, Zhongqiang Chen

  Current address: Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biology and the Graduate Program in Genomics and Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• David S. Roos,

  Affiliation Department of Biology and the Graduate Program in Genomics and Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Mechthild Pohlschröder

  * E-mail: pohlschr@sas.upenn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology and the Graduate Program in Genomics and Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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