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Proteins sorted by ‘chaos and disorder’

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Entropy-driven protein sorting traffics membrane-anchored exposed proteins to the surface of Gram-positive bacteria.

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Fig. 1: Protein sorting across the Gram-positive bacterial cell wall.

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van Dijl, J.M., du Teil Espina, M. Proteins sorted by ‘chaos and disorder’. Nat Microbiol 6, 973–974 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-00944-6

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