Functional analysis of an unusual type IV pilus in the Gram-positive Streptococcus sanguinis

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We thank the Laboratory of Bioinformatics Analyses for Genomics and Metabolism (France Genomique) for access to and help with the MicroScope platform. We are grateful to Tillmann Pape (Electron Microscopy Centre, Imperial College London) and Shuaimin Liu (MRSEC, Columbia University) for help with TEM and SEM respectively. We thank Jamie Berry, Vivianne Goosens and Chiara Recchi (Imperial College London) for critical reading of this manuscript. Ishwori Gurung is a recipient of a MRC Centre of Molecular Bacteriology and Infection PhD studentship.