A lipoprotein allosterically activates the CwlD amidase during Clostridioides difficile spore formation

• Carolina Alves Feliciano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carolina Alves Feliciano, Brian E. Eckenroth

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica Antonio Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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

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• Brian E. Eckenroth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carolina Alves Feliciano, Brian E. Eckenroth

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4818-311X

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• Oscar R. Diaz,

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

  Current address: Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4041-2096

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• Sylvie Doublié,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America

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• Aimee Shen

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

  * E-mail: aimee.shen@tufts.edu

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

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

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