PepN is a non-essential, cell wall-localized protein that contributes to neutrophil elastase-mediated killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae

• Charmaine N. Nganje ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Charmaine N. Nganje, Scott A. Haynes

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States of America

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• Scott A. Haynes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Charmaine N. Nganje, Scott A. Haynes

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States of America

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• Christine M. Qabar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States of America

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• Rachel C. Lent,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States of America

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• Elsa N. Bou Ghanem,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo School of Medicine, Buffalo, NY, United States of America

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• Mara G. Shainheit

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mshainheit@towson.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2247-4587

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