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Goethe University Frankfurt

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The T4A pili of different Acinetobacter strains have evolutionarily modified the ComC protein at their tip (oval, in different colors) to settle in different niches within humans. Gray bars: cell envelope.

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Katharina Pfefferle, Goethe University Frankfurt

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