Identification of an autotransporter peptidase of Rickettsia rickettsii responsible for maturation of surface exposed autotransporters

• Adam M. Nock,

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

  Affiliation Host-Parasite Interactions Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Karin Aistleitner †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Host-Parasite Interactions Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Tina R. Clark,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Host-Parasite Interactions Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Dan Sturdevant,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Research Section, Research Technologies Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Stacy Ricklefs,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Research Section, Research Technologies Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Kimmo Virtaneva,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Genomics Research Section, Research Technologies Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Yixiang Zhang,

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

  Affiliation Protein Chemistry Unit, Research Technologies Branch, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Naila Gulzar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Integrated Data Sciences Section, Research Technologies Branch, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Neelam Redekar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Integrated Data Sciences Section, Research Technologies Branch, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Amitiva Roy,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Branch, Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

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• Ted Hackstadt

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

  * E-mail: ted_hackstadt@nih.gov

  Affiliation Host-Parasite Interactions Section, Laboratory of Bacteriology, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH; Hamilton, Montana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1367-5528

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