The PPE Domain of PPE17 Is Responsible for Its Surface Localization and Can Be Used to Express Heterologous Proteins on the Mycobacterial Surface

• 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 Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Marcello Ventura,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Michela Sali,

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

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• Alessandro Cascioferro,

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Roberta Provvedi,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Giorgio Palù,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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• Giovanni Delogu,

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

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• Riccardo Manganelli

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

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