Bps polysaccharide of Bordetella pertussis resists antimicrobial peptides by functioning as a dual surface shield and decoy and converts Escherichia coli into a respiratory pathogen

• Audra R. Fullen,

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

  Affiliation The Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Jessica L. Gutierrez-Ferman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Kacy S. Yount,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation The Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Cheraton F. Love,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Hyun G. Choi,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation The Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Mario A. Vargas,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Deepa Raju,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Kara N. Corps,

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

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Comparative Pathology and Digital Imaging Shared Resource, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• P. Lynne Howell,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Program in Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Purnima Dubey,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation The Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

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• Rajendar Deora

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Rajendar.deora@osumc.edu

  Affiliations The Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6093-8354

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