Superstructure formation by RodZ hexamers of Shigella sonnei maintains the rod shape of bacilli

• Jiro Mitobe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Mitobe, Shouji Yamamoto, Makoto Ohnishi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jmitobe@nih.go.jp

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1424-4594

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• Fumiko Nishiumi ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Medicine, Research Institute, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Izumi, Osaka, Japan

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• Itaru Yanagihara ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Developmental Medicine, Research Institute, Osaka Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Izumi, Osaka, Japan

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• Shouji Yamamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Mitobe, Shouji Yamamoto, Makoto Ohnishi

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Makoto Ohnishi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jiro Mitobe, Shouji Yamamoto, Makoto Ohnishi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology I, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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