Regulating pilin expression reveals a threshold for S motility in Myxococcus xanthus.

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Published in J Bacteriol on March 01, 2005

Authors

Lotte Jelsbak1, Dale Kaiser

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1: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5329, USA.

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