The extracellular loop of the membrane permease VraG interacts with GraS to sense cationic antimicrobial peptides in Staphylococcus aureus

• Junho Cho,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9884-6797

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• Stephen K. Costa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6480-7725

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• Rachel M. Wierzbicki,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• William F. C. Rigby,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

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• Ambrose L. Cheung

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

  * E-mail: ambrose.cheung@dartmouth.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5120-3949

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