Neuronal death in pneumococcal meningitis is triggered by pneumolysin and RrgA interactions with β-actin

• Mahebali Tabusi,

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

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J7:20, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5897-4383

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• Sigrun Thorsdottir,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J7:20, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6844-401X

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• Maria Lysandrou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J7:20, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ana Rita Narciso,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J7:20, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1316-3856

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• Melania Minoia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institutet, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Chinmaya Venugopal Srambickal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Jerker Widengren,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3200-0374

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• Birgitta Henriques-Normark,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J7:20, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Federico Iovino

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

  * E-mail: federico.iovino@ki.se

  Current address: Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Biomedicum D07, Stockholm, Sweden.

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, BioClinicum J7:20, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5249-9120

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