Analysis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae macrophage interaction: Dispensability of corynomycolic acids for inhibition of phagolysosome maturation and identification of a new gene involved in synthesis of the corynomycolic acid layer

• Lisa Ott ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Ott, Elena Hacker

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Elena Hacker ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lisa Ott, Elena Hacker

  Roles Investigation, Visualization

  ¶‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Timo Kunert,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Ian Karrington,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Philipp Etschel,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, Mikrobiologisches Institut, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Roland Lang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Mikrobiologisches Institut, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Veit Wiesmann,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS), Erlangen, Germany

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• Thomas Wittenberg,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Fraunhofer Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen (IIS), Erlangen, Germany

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• Albel Singh,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Cristian Varela,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Apoorva Bhatt,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection and School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Vartul Sangal,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Andreas Burkovski

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: andreas.burkovski@fau.de

  Affiliation Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1896-4521

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