Cytotoxicity of Vibrio parahaemolyticus AHPND toxin on shrimp hemocytes, a newly identified target tissue, involves binding of toxin to aminopeptidase N1 receptor

• Waruntorn Luangtrakul,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Center of Excellence for Molecular Biology and Genomics of Shrimp, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-8892

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• Pakpoom Boonchuen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliations Center of Excellence for Molecular Biology and Genomics of Shrimp, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, School of Biotechnology, Institute of Agricultural Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand

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• Phattarunda Jaree,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Center of Applied Shrimp Research and Innovation, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

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• Ramya Kumar,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Biotechnology and Bioindustry Sciences, College of Biosciences and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, International Center for the Scientific Development of Shrimp Aquaculture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Han-Ching Wang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wanghc@mail.ncku.edu.tw (HC); kunlaya.s@chula.ac.th (KS)

  Affiliations Department of Biotechnology and Bioindustry Sciences, College of Biosciences and Biotechnology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, International Center for the Scientific Development of Shrimp Aquaculture, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-4942

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• Kunlaya Somboonwiwat

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wanghc@mail.ncku.edu.tw (HC); kunlaya.s@chula.ac.th (KS)

  Affiliation Center of Excellence for Molecular Biology and Genomics of Shrimp, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0241-8238

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