Functional Dissection of the PE Domain Responsible for Translocation of PE_PGRS33 across the Mycobacterial Cell Wall

• Alessandro Cascioferro,

  Current address: Integrated Mycobacterial Pathogenomics Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

  Affiliation Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Maria H. Daleke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria H. Daleke, Marcello Ventura

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Molecular Microbiology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Marcello Ventura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maria H. Daleke, Marcello Ventura

  Affiliation Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Valentina Donà,

  Current address: Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Giovanni Delogu,

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy

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• Giorgio Palù,

  Affiliation Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Wilbert Bitter,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Department of Molecular Microbiology, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Riccardo Manganelli

  * E-mail: riccardo.manganelli@unipd.it

  Affiliation Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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