Mechanical forces control the valency of the malaria adhesin VAR2CSA by exposing cryptic glycan binding sites

• Rita Roessner,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: IBMM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, Montpellier, France

  Affiliation Molecular Biomechanics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Nicholas Michelarakis,

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

  Current address: Early Stage Pharmaceutical Development Biologicals, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach/Riss, Germany

  Affiliation Molecular Biomechanics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4618-2850

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• Frauke Gräter,

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

  Affiliations Molecular Biomechanics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Camilo Aponte-Santamaría

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

  * E-mail: camilo.aponte@h-its.org

  Affiliation Molecular Biomechanics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8427-6965

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