Peptidoglycan architecture dictates protein interactions, tissue tropism, and arthritis in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi

• Saadman S. Ahmad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Osamudiamen Ebohon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Mecaila E. McClune,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Human Center for Immunobiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Rebecca N. Trimble,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Casey N. Kellogg,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Human Center for Immunobiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Carmen J. Booth,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Wolfram R. Zückert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

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• Brandon L. Jutras

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: brandon.jutras@northwestern.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Human Center for Immunobiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7989-1031

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