O antigen biogenesis sensitises Escherichia coli K-12 to bile salts, providing a plausible explanation for its evolutionary loss

• Jilong Qin ,

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

  * E-mail: Jilong.qin@qut.edu.au (JQ); Makrina.totsika@qut.edu.au (MT)

  Affiliation Centre for Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5867-6332

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• Yaoqin Hong,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Max Planck Queensland Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4408-2648

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• Renato Morona,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Department of Molecular & Biomedical Sciences, Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Makrina Totsika

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

  * E-mail: Jilong.qin@qut.edu.au (JQ); Makrina.totsika@qut.edu.au (MT)

  Affiliations Centre for Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Max Planck Queensland Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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