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Radkov AD, Chou S. An Affair to Remember: How an endosymbiont partners with its host to build a cell envelope. Cell (2019). 179(3):584-586. (PDF)

Stankeviciute G, Miguel AV, Radkov A, Chou S, Huang KC, Klein EA. Differential modes of crosslinking establish spatially distinct regions of peptidoglycan in Caulobacter cresentus. Molecular Microbiology (2019). 111(4):995-1008. (PDF)

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Russell AB, Wexler AG, Harding BN, Whitney JC, Bohn AJ, Goo YA, Tran BQ, Barry NA, Zheng H, Peterson SB, Chou S, Gonen T, Goodlett DR, Goodman AL, Mougous JD. A type VI secretion-related pathway in Bacteroidetes mediates interbacterial antagonism. Cell Host Microbe (2014).16(2):227-36.

Whitney JC, Chou S, Russell AB, Biboy J, Gardiner TE, Ferrin MA, Brittnacher M, Vollmer W, Mougous JD. Identification, structure and function of a novel type VI secretion peptidoglycan glycoside hydrolase effector-immunity pair. J Biol Chem (2013). 288(37):26616-24.

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