Clade-1 Vap virulence proteins of Rhodococcus equi are associated with the cell surface and support intracellular growth in macrophages

• Zeynep Yerlikaya ,

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

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

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6895-2727

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• Raúl Miranda-CasoLuengo ,

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

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

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

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• Yuting Yin,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Cheng Cheng,

  Roles Investigation

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

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• Wim G. Meijer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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

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

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