Ultrastructural insights into the microsporidian infection apparatus reveal the kinetics and morphological transitions of polar tube and cargo during host cell invasion

• Himanshu Sharma ,

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

  * E-mail: himanshu.sharma@umu.se (HS); jonas.barandun@umu.se (JB)

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Science for Life Laboratory, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Nathan Jespersen,

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Science for Life Laboratory, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Kai Ehrenbolger,

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

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Science for Life Laboratory, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Lars-Anders Carlson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine, Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

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• Jonas Barandun

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: himanshu.sharma@umu.se (HS); jonas.barandun@umu.se (JB)

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Science for Life Laboratory, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2971-8190

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