FlbB forms a distinctive ring essential for periplasmic flagellar assembly and motility in Borrelia burgdorferi

• Jack M. Botting,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Md Khalesur Rahman,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Hui Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jian Yue,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Wangbiao Guo,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Joshua T. Del Mundo,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Michal Hammel,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Md A. Motaleb ,

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

  * E-mail: MOTALEBM@ecu.edu (MAM); jliu@yale.edu (JL)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2761-5104

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• Jun Liu

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

  * E-mail: MOTALEBM@ecu.edu (MAM); jliu@yale.edu (JL)

  Affiliations Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3108-6735

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