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Scanning electron micrograph of an endothelial cell after infection with N. meningitidis (1)

Colorized crop shows plasma membrane protrusions (magenta, dotted lined) attached alongside bacterial type IV pili (yellow). Bacterial type IV pili have been stabilized with a monoclonal antibody. Abbreviation: T4P, bacterial type IV pili. Scale bars, 1 μm and 200 nm. (Source: Charles-Orszag A, Tsai FC, Bonazzi D, et al. Adhesion to nanofibers drives cell membrane remodeling through one-dimensional wetting. Nat Commun 2018;9[1]:4450. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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