BHLHE40 drives protective polyfunctional CD4 T cell differentiation in the female reproductive tract against Chlamydia

• Miguel A. B. Mercado,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Qiang Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Charles M. Quick,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Yejin Kim,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Rachel Palmer,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Lu Huang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Lin-Xi Li

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

  * E-mail: lxli@uams.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5526-8966

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