Periplasmic flagella in Borrelia burgdoferi function to maintain cellular integrity upon external stress

• Bharath Kumar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation The C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Kelly Miller,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Nyles W. Charon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, WVU nanoSAFE, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Justin Legleiter

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

  * E-mail: justin.legleiter@mail.wvu.edu

  Affiliations The C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, WVU nanoSAFE, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5262-1867

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