The anti-sigma factor MucA of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Dramatic differences of a mucA22 vs. a ΔmucA mutant in anaerobic acidified nitrite sensitivity of planktonic and biofilm bacteria in vitro and during chronic murine lung infection

• Warunya Panmanee,

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Shengchang Su,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Michael J. Schurr,

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

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2585-0477

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• Gee W. Lau,

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

  Affiliation College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL United States of America

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• Xiaoting Zhu,

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

  Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Zhaowei Ren,

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

  Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Cameron T. McDaniel,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Long J. Lu,

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

  Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Dennis E. Ohman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA United States of America, McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, VA United States of America

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• Daniel A. Muruve,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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• Ralph J. Panos,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH United States of America, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Division, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Hongwei D. Yu,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Marshall University, Huntington, WV United States of America

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• Thomas B. Thompson,

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

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• Boo Shan Tseng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7563-0232

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• Daniel J. Hassett

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Daniel.Hassett@UC.Edu

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2300-4955

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