Symmetrical arrangement of positively charged residues around the 5-fold axes of SAT type foot-and-mouth disease virus enhances cell culture of field viruses

• Melanie Chitray ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Chitray, Abhay Kotecha

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

  Affiliations Vaccine and Diagnostic Development Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Abhay Kotecha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Melanie Chitray, Abhay Kotecha

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

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4480-5439

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• Peninah Nsamba,

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

  Affiliations Vaccine and Diagnostic Development Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pretoria, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Makerere University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Kampala, Uganda

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7190-4689

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• Jingshan Ren,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Sonja Maree,

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

  Affiliation Vaccine and Diagnostic Development Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa

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• Tovhowani Ramulongo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Vaccine and Diagnostic Development Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0044-9724

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• Guntram Paul,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MSD Animal Health, Cologne, Germany

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• Jacques Theron,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9091-3898

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• Elizabeth E. Fry,

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

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9754-5303

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• David I. Stuart,

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

  Affiliation Division of Structural Biology, The Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-4210

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• Francois F. Maree

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

  * E-mail: mareef@arc.agric.za

  Affiliations Vaccine and Diagnostic Development Programme, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Agricultural Research Council, Onderstepoort, South Africa, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8777-250X

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