The N-terminal domain is required for cell surface localisation of VapA, a member of the Vap family of Rhodococcus equi virulence proteins

• Raúl Miranda-CasoLuengo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raúl Miranda-CasoLuengo, Zeynep Yerlikaya, Haixia Luo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9294-6578

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• Zeynep Yerlikaya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raúl Miranda-CasoLuengo, Zeynep Yerlikaya, Haixia Luo

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Department of Microbiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Firat University, Elazığ, Türkiye

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• Haixia Luo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Raúl Miranda-CasoLuengo, Zeynep Yerlikaya, Haixia Luo

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5038-1994

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• Cheng Cheng,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• Alfonso Blanco,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Flow Cytometry Core Technology, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• Albert Haas,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Cell Biology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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• Wim G. Meijer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: wim.meijer@ucd.ie

  Affiliation UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science and UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1302-4338

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