The CspC:CspA heterodimer transduces germinant and co-germinant signals during Clostridioides difficile spore germination

• Morgan E. McNellis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan E. McNellis, Gonzalo González-Del Pino

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

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Gonzalo González-Del Pino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Morgan E. McNellis, Gonzalo González-Del Pino

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Juan A. Serrano-Jiménez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Emily R. Forster,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Anca Ioana Stoica,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ekaterina E. Heldwein ,

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

  * E-mail: katya.heldwein@tufts.edu (EEH); aimee.shen@tufts.edu (AS)

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3113-6958

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• Aimee Shen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  * E-mail: katya.heldwein@tufts.edu (EEH); aimee.shen@tufts.edu (AS)

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Graduate Program in Molecular Microbiology, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-5742

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