The peptidoglycan-associated protein NapA plays an important role in the envelope integrity and in the pathogenesis of the lyme disease spirochete

• Marisela M. Davis,

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

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Aaron M. Brock,

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

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3861-9074

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• Tanner G. DeHart,

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

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-0376

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• Brittany P. Boribong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1297-6337

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• Katherine Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0654-1583

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• Mecaila E. McClune,

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

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9071-540X

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• Yunjie Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Nicholas Cramer,

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

  Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1237-4168

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• Jun Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Caroline N. Jones,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

  Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6003-9335

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• Brandon L. Jutras

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: bjutras@vt.edu

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7989-1031

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