EspF is crucial for Citrobacter rodentium-induced tight junction disruption and lethality in immunocompromised animals

• Xue Xia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xue Xia, Yue Liu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4848-0424

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• Yue Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xue Xia, Yue Liu

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Andrea Hodgson,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9579-0257

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• Dongqing Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Wenxuan Guo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Hongbing Yu,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, BC's Children's Hospital and Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Weifeng She,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Eudowood Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Chenxing Zhou,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

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• Lei Lan,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China

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• Kai Fu,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Institute of Molecular Precision Medicine, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, PR China

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• Bruce A. Vallance,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, BC's Children's Hospital and Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1345-6747

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• Fengyi Wan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fwan1@jhu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9216-9767

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