Repurposing the Streptococcus mutans CRISPR-Cas9 System to Understand Essential Gene Function

• Robert C. Shields ,

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

  * E-mail: rshields@dental.ufl.edu

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8823-9504

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• Alejandro R. Walker,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-6584

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• Natalie Maricic,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Brinta Chakraborty,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-3740

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• Simon A. M. Underhill,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5214-4562

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• Robert A. Burne

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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