Genetic diversity of the O antigens of Proteus species and the development of a suspension array for molecular serotyping

• Xiang Yu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology of the Ministry of Education, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochips, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China

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• Agnieszka Torzewska,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Immunobiology of Bacteria, Department of General Microbiology Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

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• Xinjie Zhang,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology of the Ministry of Education, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochips, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China

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• Zhiqiu Yin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology of the Ministry of Education, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochips, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China

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• Dominika Drzewiecka,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Immunobiology of Bacteria, Department of General Microbiology Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

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• Hengchun Cao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology of the Ministry of Education, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochips, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China

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• Bin Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology of the Ministry of Education, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochips, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China

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• Yuriy A. Knirel,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

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• Antoni Rozalski,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Immunobiology of Bacteria, Department of General Microbiology Institute of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

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• Lei Wang

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

  * E-mail: wanglei@nankai.edu.cn

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology of the Ministry of Education, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochips, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4427-0881

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