A novel esterase regulates Klebsiella pneumoniae hypermucoviscosity and virulence

• Lijun Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Wang, Zhe Wang, Hua Zhang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Laboratory Medicine, Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital, Beijing, China, Center for Infectious Disease Research, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Zhe Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Wang, Zhe Wang, Hua Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Shandong Key Laboratory of Glycoscience and Glycotherapeutics, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

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• Hua Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Wang, Zhe Wang, Hua Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University School of Dentistry, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

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• Qian Jin,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Shuaihua Fan,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Beijing, China

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• Yanni Liu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Xueting Huang,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Jun Guo,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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• Chao Cai ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  * E-mail: caic@ouc.edu.cn (CC); zhanglab@tsinghua.edu.cn (J-RZ); wuhu@ohsu.edu (HW)

  Affiliation Shandong Key Laboratory of Glycoscience and Glycotherapeutics, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

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• Jing-Ren Zhang ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: caic@ouc.edu.cn (CC); zhanglab@tsinghua.edu.cn (J-RZ); wuhu@ohsu.edu (HW)

  Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-4243

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• Hui Wu

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: caic@ouc.edu.cn (CC); zhanglab@tsinghua.edu.cn (J-RZ); wuhu@ohsu.edu (HW)

  Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University School of Dentistry, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-3954

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