Merkel cell polyomavirus exploits extracellular vesicles for skin infection and host immune evasion through activated Wnt signaling

• Alexander M. Pham,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cell and Biological Systems, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Luz E. Ortiz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cell and Biological Systems, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Han Chen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Transmission Electron Microscopy Core, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Neil Christensen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Hyun Jin Kwun

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

  * E-mail: hxk479@psu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Cell and Biological Systems, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8926-746X

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