Settling down on chitin

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Andrea Du Toit. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;17(9):527.

doi: 10.1038/s41579-019-0237-y.

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DNA-uptake pili of Vibrio cholerae are required for chitin colonization and capable of kin recognition via sequence-specific self-interaction.
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