A Caenorhabditis elegans nck-1 and filamentous actin-regulating protein pathway mediates a key cellular defense against bacterial pore-forming proteins

• Anand Sitaram ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hasta82@hotmail.com (HH); raffi.aroian@umassmed.edu (RVA)

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yunqiang Yin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Tammy Zamaitis,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bo Zhang,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biostatistics and Research Design Center, Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Raffi V. Aroian

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

  * E-mail: hasta82@hotmail.com (HH); raffi.aroian@umassmed.edu (RVA)

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9741-3834

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