Selection and characterization of ultrahigh potency designed ankyrin repeat protein inhibitors of C. difficile toxin B

• Rudo Simeon ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Mengqiu Jiang ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Ana M. Chamoun-Emanuelli,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Hua Yu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United Sates of America

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• Yongrong Zhang,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United Sates of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8594-4232

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• Ran Meng,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Zeyu Peng,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Joanita Jakana,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Junjie Zhang ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: junjiez@tamu.edu (JZ); hfeng@umaryland.edu (HF); zchen4@tamu.edu (ZC)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Hanping Feng ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: junjiez@tamu.edu (JZ); hfeng@umaryland.edu (HF); zchen4@tamu.edu (ZC)

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, Maryland, United Sates of America

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• Zhilei Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: junjiez@tamu.edu (JZ); hfeng@umaryland.edu (HF); zchen4@tamu.edu (ZC)

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0244-3556

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