Structural similarities between the metacyclic and bloodstream form variant surface glycoproteins of the African trypanosome

• Monica Chandra,

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

  Affiliations Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Immune Diversity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Sara Đaković,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Konstantina Foti,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Johan P. Zeelen,

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

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Monique van Straaten,

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

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Francisco Aresta-Branco,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, Division of Immune Diversity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Eliane Tihon,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Trypanosome Molecular Biology, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France

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• Nicole Lübbehusen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Biology at the University of Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Thomas Ruppert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Molecular Biology at the University of Heidelberg (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Lucy Glover,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Trypanosome Molecular Biology, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Paris, France

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• F. Nina Papavasiliou,

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

  Affiliation Division of Immune Diversity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

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• C. Erec Stebbins

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

  * E-mail: e.stebbins@dkfz-heidelberg.de

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology of Infection and Immunity, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6229-5308

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