Intracellular Survival of Leishmania major Depends on Uptake and Degradation of Extracellular Matrix Glycosaminoglycans by Macrophages

• Thomas Naderer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Naderer, Joanne Heng

  * E-mail: Thomas.naderer@monash.edu (TN); malcolmm@unimelb.edu.au (MJM)

  Affiliations The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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• Joanne Heng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Naderer, Joanne Heng

  Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Eleanor C. Saunders,

  Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Joachim Kloehn,

  Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Thusitha W. Rupasinghe,

  Affiliation Metabolomics Australia, Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Tracey J. Brown,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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• Malcolm J. McConville

  * E-mail: Thomas.naderer@monash.edu (TN); malcolmm@unimelb.edu.au (MJM)

  Affiliation The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Bio21 Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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