A fungal lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase is required for cell wall integrity, thermotolerance, and virulence of the fungal human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

• Corinna Probst ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corinna Probst, Magnus Hallas-Møller

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Magnus Hallas-Møller ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Corinna Probst, Magnus Hallas-Møller

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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• Johan Ø. Ipsen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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• Jacob T. Brooks,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Karsten Andersen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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• Mireille Haon,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation INRAE, Aix-Marseille Univ., Biodiversité et Biotechnologie Fongiques (BBF), Marseille, France

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• Jean-Guy Berrin,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation INRAE, Aix-Marseille Univ., Biodiversité et Biotechnologie Fongiques (BBF), Marseille, France

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• Helle J. Martens,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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• Connie B. Nichols,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Katja S. Johansen,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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• J. Andrew Alspaugh

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: andrew.alspaugh@duke.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3009-627X

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