Identification of a novel cationic glycolipid in Streptococcus agalactiae that contributes to brain entry and meningitis

• Luke R. Joyce,

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

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9346-671X

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• Haider S. Manzer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2864-6212

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• Jéssica da C. Mendonça,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Rio de Janeiro State University, Roberto Alcântara Gomes Biology Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2555-4582

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• Ricardo Villarreal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7641-4136

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• Prescilla E. Nagao,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Rio de Janeiro State University, Roberto Alcântara Gomes Biology Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6007-0033

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• Kelly S. Doran ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Kelly.Doran@CUAnschutz.edu (KSD); Kelli.Palmer@UTDallas.edu (KLP); Ziqiang.Guan@Duke.edu (ZG)

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-6837

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• Kelli L. Palmer ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Kelly.Doran@CUAnschutz.edu (KSD); Kelli.Palmer@UTDallas.edu (KLP); Ziqiang.Guan@Duke.edu (ZG)

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7343-9271

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• Ziqiang Guan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Kelly.Doran@CUAnschutz.edu (KSD); Kelli.Palmer@UTDallas.edu (KLP); Ziqiang.Guan@Duke.edu (ZG)

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8082-3423

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