The serine protease HtrA regulates Group B Streptococcus virulence and affects the host response to infection

• Alyssa Brokaw,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

  Affiliations Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Grace Wallen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Austyn Orvis,

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

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Hei Joon Kwon,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Ravin Seepersaud,

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

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Shayla Nguyen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Kavita Sharma,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Michelle Coleman,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Phoenicia Quach,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Joy Twentyman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Jay Vornhagen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Lisa A. Jones,

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

  Affiliation Proteomics & Metabolomics Shared Resource, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Chenwei Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Proteomics & Metabolomics Shared Resource, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Philip R. Gafken,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Proteomics & Metabolomics Shared Resource, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Lakshmi Rajagopal

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

  * E-mail: lakshmi.rajagopal@seattlechildrens.org

  Affiliations Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3373-2323

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