Interleukin-17A signaling promotes CD8⁺ T cell cytotoxicity against West Nile virus infection through enhancing PI3K-mTOR-mediated metabolism

• Farzana Nazneen,

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

  Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Program, School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Biswas Neupane,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Program, School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Yao Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Shazeed-Ul Karim,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Program, School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Zongbing You,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Structural & Cellular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Weiguo Cui,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Fengwei Bai

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

  * E-mail: fengwei.bai@usm.edu

  Affiliation Cell and Molecular Biology Program, School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-2475

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