YebC regulates variable surface antigen VlsE expression and is required for host immune evasion in Borrelia burgdorferi

• Yan Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Tong Chen, Sajith Raghunandanan

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

  Affiliations Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Optometry and Eye Hospital and School of Ophthalmology, School of Biomedical Engineering, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Tong Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Tong Chen, Sajith Raghunandanan

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2715-5278

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• Sajith Raghunandanan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhang, Tong Chen, Sajith Raghunandanan

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Xuwu Xiang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Jing Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6061-4085

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• Qiang Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1409-2642

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• Diane G. Edmondson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UTHealth Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Steven J. Norris,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UTHealth Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• X. Frank Yang ,

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

  * E-mail: xfyang@iu.edu (XFY); lyl@wmu.edu.cn (YL)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-3167

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• Yongliang Lou

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: xfyang@iu.edu (XFY); lyl@wmu.edu.cn (YL)

  Affiliation Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

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