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    Ellison C, Dalia T, Klancher C, Shaevitz J, Gitai Z, Dalia A. Acinetobacter baylyi regulates type IV pilus synthesis by employing two extension motors and a motor protein inhibitor. Nat Commun. 2021;12(1):3744. PMCID: PMC8213720
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    Franklin E, Jonikas M. Increasing the uptake of carbon dioxide. Elife. 2020;9. PMCID: PMC7714390
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    Guest R, Rutherford S, Silhavy T. Border Control: Regulating LPS Biogenesis. Trends Microbiol. 2021;29(4):334–345. PMCID: PMC7969359
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    Luongo T, Eller J, Lu M-J, Niere M, Raith F, Perry C, Bornstein M, Oliphint P, Wang L, McReynolds M, Migaud M, Rabinowitz J, Johnson B, Johnsson K, Ziegler M, Cambronne X, Baur J. SLC25A51 is a mammalian mitochondrial NAD transporter. Nature. 2020;588(7836):174–179. PMCID: PMC7718333
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    Eickhoff M, Bassler B. Vibrio fischeri siderophore production drives competitive exclusion during dual-species growth. Mol Microbiol. 2020;114(2):244–261. PMCID: PMC7541421
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    Hart E, Mitchell A, Konovalova A, Grabowicz M, Sheng J, Han X, Rodriguez-Rivera F, Schwaid A, Malinverni J, Balibar C, Bodea S, Si Q, Wang H, Homsher M, Painter R, Ogawa A, Sutterlin H, Roemer T, Black T, Rothman D, Walker S, Silhavy T. A small-molecule inhibitor of BamA impervious to efflux and the outer membrane permeability barrier. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019;116(43):21748–21757. PMCID: PMC6815139
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    Tanner L, Goglia A, Wei M, Sehgal T, Parsons L, Park J, White E, Toettcher J, Rabinowitz J. Four Key Steps Control Glycolytic Flux in Mammalian Cells. Cell Syst. 2018;7(1):49–62.e8. PMCID: PMC6062487
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    Davila A, Liu L, Chellappa K, Redpath P, Nakamaru-Ogiso E, Paolella L, Zhang Z, Migaud M, Rabinowitz J, Baur J. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide is transported into mammalian mitochondria. Elife. 2018;7. PMCID: PMC6013257
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    Yan N. A Glimpse of Membrane Transport through Structures-Advances in the Structural Biology of the GLUT Glucose Transporters. J Mol Biol. 2017;429(17):2710–2725. PMID: 28756087
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    Sun L, Zeng X, Yan C, Sun X, Gong X, Rao Y, Yan N. Crystal structure of a bacterial homologue of glucose transporters GLUT1-4. Nature. 2012;490(7420):361–6. PMID: 23075985
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    Madej G, Dang S, Yan N, Kaback R. Evolutionary mix-and-match with MFS transporters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013;110(15):5870–4. PMCID: PMC3625355
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    Yan N. Structural investigation of the proton-coupled secondary transporters. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2013;23(4):483–91. PMID: 23806360
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    Madej G, Sun L, Yan N, Kaback R. Functional architecture of MFS D-glucose transporters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014;111(7):E719–27. PMCID: PMC3932877
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    Kim H, Raffler J, Lu W, Lee J-J, Abbey D, Saleheen D, Rabinowitz J, Bennett M, Hand N, Brown C, Rader D. Fine Mapping and Functional Analysis Reveal a Role of SLC22A1 in Acylcarnitine Transport. Am J Hum Genet. 2017;101(4):489–502. PMCID: PMC5630162
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    Rahimi M, Regan D, Arroyo M, Subramaniam A, Stone H, Staykova M. Shape Transformations of Lipid Bilayers Following Rapid Cholesterol Uptake. Biophys J. 2016;111(12):2651–2657. PMCID: PMC5192696
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    Okuda S, Sherman D, Silhavy T, Ruiz N, Kahne D. Lipopolysaccharide transport and assembly at the outer membrane: the PEZ model. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2016;14(6):337–45. PMCID: PMC4937791
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    May K, Silhavy T. Making a membrane on the other side of the wall. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids. 2017;1862(11):1386–1393. PMCID: PMC5388599
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    Grabowicz M, Yeh J, Silhavy T. Dominant negative lptE mutation that supports a role for LptE as a plug in the LptD barrel. J Bacteriol. 2013;195(6):1327–34. PMCID: PMC3591993
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    Berezhkovskii A, Shvartsman S. Dynamics of gradient formation by intracellular shuttling. J Chem Phys. 2015;143(7):074116. PMCID: PMC5562396
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    Taga M, Miller S, Bassler B. Lsr-mediated transport and processing of AI-2 in Salmonella typhimurium. Mol Microbiol. 2003;50(4):1411–27. PMID: 14622426
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    Persat A, Nadell C, Kim M, Ingremeau F, Siryaporn A, Drescher K, Wingreen N, Bassler B, Gitai Z, Stone H. The mechanical world of bacteria. Cell. 2015;161(5):988–997. PMCID: PMC4451180
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