Escherichia coli DNA ligase B may mitigate damage from oxidative stress

• Truston J. Bodine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Truston J. Bodine, Michael A. Evangelista

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

  Affiliations Interdepartmental Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Medical Scientist Training Program, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Michael A. Evangelista ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Truston J. Bodine, Michael A. Evangelista

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

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Huan Ting Chang,

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

  Current address: Huan Ting Chang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Christopher A. Ayoub,

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Buck S. Samuel,

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

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Richard Sucgang,

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

  Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

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• Lynn Zechiedrich

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

  * E-mail: elz@bcm.edu

  Affiliations Interdepartmental Program in Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0533-1637

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