Treponema pallidum promoted microglia apoptosis and prevented itself from clearing by human microglia via blocking autophagic flux

• Yun-Ting Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Ting Hu, Kai-Xuan Wu, Xiao-Tong Wang

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

  Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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• Kai-Xuan Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Ting Hu, Kai-Xuan Wu, Xiao-Tong Wang

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Qilu Hospital (Qingdao), Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, China

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• Xiao-Tong Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yun-Ting Hu, Kai-Xuan Wu, Xiao-Tong Wang

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Visualization

  Affiliations Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Department of Laboratory, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, China

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• Yuan-Yi Zhao,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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• Xiao-Yong Jiang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Zhongshan Hospital, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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• Dan Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  * E-mail: liulili@xmu.edu.cn (LLL); tongmanli@xmu.edu.cn (MLT); lauisldwyyx@163.com (DL)

  Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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• Man-Li Tong ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liulili@xmu.edu.cn (LLL); tongmanli@xmu.edu.cn (MLT); lauisldwyyx@163.com (DL)

  Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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• Li-Li Liu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liulili@xmu.edu.cn (LLL); tongmanli@xmu.edu.cn (MLT); lauisldwyyx@163.com (DL)

  Affiliation Center of Clinical Laboratory, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4968-4266

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