Structural and immunochemical relatedness suggests a conserved pathogenicity motif for secondary cell wall polysaccharides in Bacillus anthracis and infection-associated Bacillus cereus

• Nazia Kamal,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7078-4099

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• Jhuma Ganguly,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5119-6144

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• Elke Saile,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Silke R. Klee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Robert Koch-Institute, Center for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Berlin, Germany

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• Alex Hoffmaster,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Russell W. Carlson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5450-7235

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• Lennart S. Forsberg ,

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

  * E-mail: sforsb@ccrc.uga.edu

  Affiliation Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6905-2760

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• Elmar L. Kannenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States of America, Robert Koch-Institute, Center for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Berlin, Germany

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• Conrad P. Quinn

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8157

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