The Myxococcus xanthus pilT locus is required for social gliding motility although pili are still produced.

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Published in Mol Microbiol on January 01, 1997

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S S Wu1, J Wu, D Kaiser

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1: Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA.

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