Borrelia peptidoglycan interacting Protein (BpiP) contributes to the fitness of Borrelia burgdorferi against host-derived factors and influences virulence in mouse models of Lyme disease

• Yue Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9649-5236

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• Sean M. Vargas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9348-980X

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• Trever C. Smith II,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1651-313X

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• Sai Lakshmi Rajasekhar Karna,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1876-7117

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• Taylor MacMackin Ingle,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Karen L. Wozniak,

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

  Current address: Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics; Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1798-2146

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• Floyd L. Wormley Jr.,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Biology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

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• Janakiram Seshu

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

  * E-mail: j.seshu@utsa.edu

  Affiliation South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4471-2435

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