Relevance of Trehalose in Pathogenicity: Some General Rules, Yet Many Exceptions

Hélène Tournu; Alessandro Fiori; Patrick Van Dijck

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1003447

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Relevance of Trehalose in Pathogenicity: Some General Rules, Yet Many Exceptions

Hélène Tournu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hélène Tournu, Alessandro Fiori

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Alessandro Fiori ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hélène Tournu, Alessandro Fiori

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Patrick Van Dijck

* E-mail: Patrick.vandijck@mmbio.vib-kuleuven.be

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Relevance of Trehalose in Pathogenicity: Some General Rules, Yet Many Exceptions

Hélène Tournu,
Alessandro Fiori,
Patrick Van Dijck

Published: August 15, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003447

About the Authors

Hélène Tournu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hélène Tournu, Alessandro Fiori

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Alessandro Fiori

Contributed equally to this work with: Hélène Tournu, Alessandro Fiori

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Patrick Van Dijck

* E-mail: Patrick.vandijck@mmbio.vib-kuleuven.be

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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