Lysosome and plasma membrane Piezo channels of Trypanosoma cruzi are essential for proliferation, differentiation and infectivity

• Guozhong Huang,

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

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Mayara S. Bertolini,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Justin Wiedeman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Ronald D. Etheridge,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Teresa Cruz-Bustos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Institute of Parasitology, Department of Biological Sciences and Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Affiliation Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Roberto Docampo

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

  * E-mail: rdocampo@uga.edu

  Affiliations Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4229-8784

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