DNA replication protein Cdc45 directly interacts with PCNA via its PIP box in Leishmania donovani and the Cdc45 PIP box is essential for cell survival

• Aarti Yadav,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

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• Varshni Sharma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Varshni Sharma, Jyoti Pal

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

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• Jyoti Pal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Varshni Sharma, Jyoti Pal

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

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• Pallavi Gulati,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

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• Manisha Goel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biophysics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

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• Udita Chandra,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Clinical Research Division, Meril Life Sciences, Vapi, India.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5957-4741

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• Neha Bansal,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

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• Swati Saha

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

  * E-mail: ss5gp@yahoo.co.in

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3424-3663

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