The Neisseria gonorrhoeae type IV pilus promotes resistance to hydrogen peroxide- and LL-37-mediated killing by modulating the availability of intracellular, labile iron

• Linda I. Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linda I. Hu, Elizabeth A. Stohl

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Elizabeth A. Stohl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Linda I. Hu, Elizabeth A. Stohl

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• H Steven Seifert

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: h-seifert@northwestern.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8651-0375

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