Genetic analysis of F1 cluster phages that infect Mycobacterium smegmatis identifies two distinct holin-like proteins that regulate the host lysis event

• Richard S. Pollenz ,

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

  * E-mail: pollenz@usf.edu

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8891-6053

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• Kira Ruiz-Houston,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Wynter Dean,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7208-7174

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• Loc Nguyen

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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