Inactivation of branched-chain amino acid uptake halts Staphylococcus aureus growth and induces bacterial quiescence within macrophages

• Adriana Moldovan,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Ronald S. Flannagan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Marcel Rühling,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Kathrin Stelzner,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Clara Hans,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Kerstin Paprotka,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Tobias C. Kunz,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• David E. Heinrichs,

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

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• Thomas Rudel ,

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

  * E-mail: martin.fraunholz@uni-wuerzburg.de (MJF); thomas.rudel@uni-wuerzburg.de (TR)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Martin J. Fraunholz

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: martin.fraunholz@uni-wuerzburg.de (MJF); thomas.rudel@uni-wuerzburg.de (TR)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4581-6244

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