Bacterial TonB-dependent transducers interact with the anti-σ factor in absence of the inducing signal protecting it from proteolysis

• Sarah Wettstadt ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Estación Experimental del Zaidín-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada, Spain

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• Francisco J. Marcos-Torres ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work and share first authorship.

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Estación Experimental del Zaidín-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada, Spain

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• Joaquín R. Otero-Asman,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Estación Experimental del Zaidín-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada, Spain

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• Alicia García-Puente,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Estación Experimental del Zaidín-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada, Spain

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• Álvaro Ortega,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology B and Immunology, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Murcia, Regional Campus of International Excellence Campus Mare Nostrum, Murcia, Spain

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• María A. Llamas

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

  * E-mail: marian.llamas@eez.csic.es

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Estación Experimental del Zaidín-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Granada, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-0492

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