Scavenger receptor-C acts as a receptor for Bacillus thuringiensis vegetative insecticidal protein Vip3Aa and mediates the internalization of Vip3Aa via endocytosis

• Kun Jiang,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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• Xiao-yue Hou,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Tong-tong Tan,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Zhang-lei Cao,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Si-qi Mei,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Bing Yan,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Jin Chang,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Lu Han,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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• Dan Zhao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation College of Plant Protection, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

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• Jun Cai

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: caijun@nankai.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, China, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Microbial Functional Genomics, Tianjin, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-3629

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