Kingella kingae PilC1 and PilC2 are adhesive multifunctional proteins that promote bacterial adherence, twitching motility, DNA transformation, and pilus biogenesis

• Alexandra L. Sacharok ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5651-0526

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• Eric A. Porsch ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1451-358X

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• Taylor A. Yount,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4652-4956

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• Orlaith Keenan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6973-1424

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• Joseph W. St. Geme III

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

  * E-mail: stgemeiiij@chop.edu

  Affiliations University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6787-9510

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