A chemosensory-like histidine kinase is dispensable for chemotaxis in vitro but regulates the virulence of Borrelia burgdorferi through modulating the stability of RpoS

• Ching Wooen Sze,

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

  Affiliation Department of Oral Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Kai Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Oral Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Michael J. Lynch,

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

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Radha Iyer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

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• Brian R. Crane,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Ira Schwartz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

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• Chunhao Li

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

  * E-mail: cli5@vcu.edu.

  Affiliations Department of Oral Craniofacial Molecular Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1872-4870

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