The arginine deaminase system plays distinct roles in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii

• Crystal L. Richards ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal L. Richards, Sandra J. Raffel

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

  * E-mail: crystal.richards@nih.gov

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5112-5095

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• Sandra J. Raffel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal L. Richards, Sandra J. Raffel

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Sébastien Bontemps-Gallo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America, Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR9017-CIIL-Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille, Lille, France

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• Daniel P. Dulebohn,

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Tessa C. Herbert,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America, University of Colorado Hospital, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

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• Frank C. Gherardini

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacteriology, Gene Regulation Section, Division of Intramural Research, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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