Serine protease Rv2569c facilitates transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis via disrupting the epithelial barrier by cleaving E-cadherin

• Xinxin Zang,

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

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Jiajun Zhang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Yanyan Jiang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Tingting Feng,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Yingying Cui,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Hui Wang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Ziyin Cui,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Guanghui Dang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guanghui Dang, Siguo Liu

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

  * E-mail: dangguanghui@caas.cn (GD); liusiguo@caas.cn (SL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

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• Siguo Liu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guanghui Dang, Siguo Liu

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

  * E-mail: dangguanghui@caas.cn (GD); liusiguo@caas.cn (SL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial Diseases, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, PR China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9898-9472

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