Allelic variation of Escherichia coli outer membrane protein A: Impact on cell surface properties, stress tolerance and allele distribution

• Chunyu Liao,

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

  Affiliation Interdepartmental Microbiology Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Miguel C. Santoscoy,

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

  Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa United States of America

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• Julia Craft,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biological Materials and Processes (BioMAP) NSF REU Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Chiron Anderson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Biological Materials and Processes (BioMAP) NSF REU Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

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• Michelle L. Soupir,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3449-1146

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• Laura R. Jarboe

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

  * E-mail: ljarboe@iastate.edu

  Affiliations Interdepartmental Microbiology Graduate Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4294-4347

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