A conserved switch controls virulence, sporulation, and motility in C. difficile

• Michael A. DiCandia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael A. DiCandia, Adrianne N. Edwards

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Adrianne N. Edwards ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michael A. DiCandia, Adrianne N. Edwards

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ysabella B. Alcaraz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Marcos P. Monteiro,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Cheyenne D. Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Germán Vargas Cuebas,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Pritha Bagchi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Emory Integrated Proteomics Core, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Shonna M. McBride

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

  * E-mail: shonna.mcbride@emory.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6221-714X

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