Candida albicans stimulates formation of a multi-receptor complex that mediates epithelial cell invasion during oropharyngeal infection

• Quynh T. Phan,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Norma V. Solis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Max V. Cravener,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia United States of America

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• Marc Swidergall,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Jianfeng Lin,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Manning Y. Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Hong Liu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Shakti Singh,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America

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• Ashraf S. Ibrahim,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Massimiliano Mazzone,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis, Center for Cancer Biology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium, Laboratory of Tumor Inflammation and Angiogenesis, Center for Cancer Biology, Department of Oncology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Aaron P. Mitchell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia United States of America

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• Scott G. Filler

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

  * E-mail: sfiller@ucla.edu

  Affiliations Institute for Infection and Immunity, Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7278-3700

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