Immunodominant extracellular loops of Treponema pallidum FadL outer membrane proteins elicit antibodies with opsonic and growth-inhibitory activities

• Kristina N. Delgado,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Melissa J. Caimano,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Research, Connecticut Children’s Research Institute, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Isabel C. Orbe,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Crystal F. Vicente,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Carson J. La Vake,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

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• André A. Grassmann,

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

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

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• M. Anthony Moody,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Immunology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Justin D. Radolf,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Research, Connecticut Children’s Research Institute, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Immunology, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Kelly L. Hawley

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

  * E-mail: hawley@uchc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Research, Connecticut Children’s Research Institute, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Immunology, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Connecticut Children’s, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8587-1662

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