Gingipains protect Porphyromonas gingivalis from macrophage-mediated phagocytic clearance

• Magdalena Widziolek ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: magdalena.widziolek@uj.edu.pl (MW); c.murdoch@sheffield.ac.uk (CM)

  Affiliations Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3979-949X

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• Anna Mieszkowska,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Magdalena Marcinkowska,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Bartlomiej Salamaga,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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• Justyna Folkert,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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• Krzysztof Rakus,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Magdalena Chadzinska,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Jan Potempa,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, Department of Oral Immunity and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Graham P. Stafford,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, The Florey Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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• Tomasz K. Prajsnar,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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• Craig Murdoch

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: magdalena.widziolek@uj.edu.pl (MW); c.murdoch@sheffield.ac.uk (CM)

  Affiliations School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, The Florey Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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