Competence shut-off by intracellular pheromone degradation in salivarius streptococci

• Adrien Knoops,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-906X

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• Laura Ledesma-García,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3276-2192

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• Alexandra Waegemans,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8476-5144

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• Morgane Lamontagne,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

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• Baptiste Decat,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

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• Hervé Degand,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

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• Pierre Morsomme,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7780-7230

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• Patrice Soumillion,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4166-7867

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• Frank Delvigne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbial Processes and Interactions, TERRA Research and Teaching Center, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Gembloux, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1679-1914

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• Pascal Hols

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pascal.hols@uclouvain.be

  Affiliation Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8749-3650

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