PIP₂ regulating calcium signal modulates actin cytoskeleton-dependent cytoadherence and cytolytic capacity in the protozoan parasite Trichomonas vaginalis

• Yen-Ju Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yen-Ju Chen, Kuan-Yi Wu, Shu-Fan Lin

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kuan-Yi Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yen-Ju Chen, Kuan-Yi Wu, Shu-Fan Lin

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shu-Fan Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yen-Ju Chen, Kuan-Yi Wu, Shu-Fan Lin

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Sung-Hsi Huang,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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• Heng-Cheng Hsu,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hong-Ming Hsu

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hsuhm@ntu.edu.tw

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7579-5106

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