Sialic acid facilitates binding and cytotoxic activity of the pore-forming Clostridium perfringens NetF toxin to host cells

• Iman Mehdizadeh Gohari ,

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

  * E-mail: imehdiza@pitt.edu

  Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1542-3420

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• Eric K. Brefo-Mensah,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9747-0185

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• Michael Palmer,

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

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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• Patrick Boerlin,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• John F. Prescott

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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