Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus employs the cysteine protease staphopain A to induce host cell death in epithelial cells

• Kathrin Stelzner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Aziza Boyny,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Tobias Hertlein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Aneta Sroka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Adriana Moldovan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Kerstin Paprotka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• David Kessie,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Helene Mehling,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Jan Potempa,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliations Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Department of Oral Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3600-7461

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• Knut Ohlsen,

  Roles Conceptualization

  Affiliation Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (IMIB), University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Martin J. Fraunholz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4581-6244

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• Thomas Rudel

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: thomas.rudel@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de

  Affiliation Chair of Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4740-6991

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