Regulation of the type IV pili molecular machine by dynamic localization of two motor
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Iryna Bulyha,1 Carmen Schmidt,1 Peter Lenz,2 Vladimir Jakovljevic,1 Andrea Höne,3 Berenike Maier,3 Michael Hoppert4 and Lotte Søgaard-Andersen1* Department of Ecophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-von-Frisch Str., 35043 Marburg, Germany. Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität, 35032 Marburg, Germany. Institute of General Zoology and Genetics, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, 48149 Münster, Germany. Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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