Germinal center activity and B cell maturation are associated with protective antibody responses against Plasmodium pre-erythrocytic infection

• Ganesh Ram R. Visweswaran ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ganesh Ram R. Visweswaran, Kamalakannan Vijayan

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

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Kamalakannan Vijayan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ganesh Ram R. Visweswaran, Kamalakannan Vijayan

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

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Ramyavardhanee Chandrasekaran,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Current address: OncoResponse, Seattle, Washington

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Olesya Trakhimets,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Samantha L. Brown,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Current address: Lake Stevens School District, Lake Stevens, Washington

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Vladimir Vigdorovich,

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

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Ashton Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Current address: Seattle Genetics, Seattle, Washington

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Andrew Raappana,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Alex Watson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• William Selman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Meghan Zuck,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Nicholas Dambrauskas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington

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• Alexis Kaushansky ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alexis.kaushansky@seattlechildrens.org (AK); noah.sather@seattlechildrens.org (DNS)

  Affiliations Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Brotman Baty Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle, Washington

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5721-258X

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• D. Noah Sather

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alexis.kaushansky@seattlechildrens.org (AK); noah.sather@seattlechildrens.org (DNS)

  Affiliations Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9128-172X

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