Deletion of the lipid droplet protein kinase gene affects lipid droplets biogenesis, parasite infectivity, and resistance to trivalent antimony in Leishmania infantum

• Juliana Martins Ribeiro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juliana Martins Ribeiro, Paula Alves Silva

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

  Affiliation Grupo Genômica Funcional de Parasitos, Instituto René Rachou, Fiocruz Minas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Paula Alves Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juliana Martins Ribeiro, Paula Alves Silva

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

  Affiliation Grupo Genômica Funcional de Parasitos, Instituto René Rachou, Fiocruz Minas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Héllida Marina Costa-Silva,

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

  Affiliation Grupo Genômica Funcional de Parasitos, Instituto René Rachou, Fiocruz Minas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Ana Maria Murta Santi,

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

  Affiliation Grupo Genômica Funcional de Parasitos, Instituto René Rachou, Fiocruz Minas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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• Silvane Maria Fonseca Murta

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

  * E-mail: silvane.murta@fiocruz.br

  Affiliation Grupo Genômica Funcional de Parasitos, Instituto René Rachou, Fiocruz Minas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8523-2155

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