Structural basis for the high specificity of a Trypanosoma congolense immunoassay targeting glycosomal aldolase

• Joar Pinto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joar Pinto, Steven Odongo

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

  ¶‡ JP and SO share first authorship on this work. SM and YGJS also contributed equally to this work and share joint senior authorship.

  Affiliations Research Unit for Cellular and Molecular Immunology (CMIM), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Structural Biology Research Centre, VIB, Brussels, Belgium

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• Steven Odongo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joar Pinto, Steven Odongo

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

  ¶‡ JP and SO share first authorship on this work. SM and YGJS also contributed equally to this work and share joint senior authorship.

  Affiliation Department of Biotechnical and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Bio-security (COVAB), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Felicity Lee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit for Cellular and Molecular Immunology (CMIM), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Vaiva Gaspariunaite,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Research Unit for Cellular and Molecular Immunology (CMIM), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Serge Muyldermans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit for Cellular and Molecular Immunology (CMIM), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

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• Stefan Magez ,

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

  ¶‡ JP and SO share first authorship on this work. SM and YGJS also contributed equally to this work and share joint senior authorship.

  Affiliations Research Unit for Cellular and Molecular Immunology (CMIM), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Structural Biology Research Centre, VIB, Brussels, Belgium, Ghent Universtiy Global Campus, Yeonsu-Gu, Incheon, South Korea

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• Yann G.-J. Sterckx

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

  * E-mail: yann.sterckx@vub.be

  ¶‡ JP and SO share first authorship on this work. SM and YGJS also contributed equally to this work and share joint senior authorship.

  Affiliations Research Unit for Cellular and Molecular Immunology (CMIM), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, Structural Biology Research Centre, VIB, Brussels, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7420-0983

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