Noncanonical bactericidal activity of teleost type I interferon is conferred by a membrane-targeting C-terminal peptide

• Han Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China

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• Ying Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China

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• Xiaoyuan Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China

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• Ziyu Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China

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• Chen Zhang,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China

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• Zhenjie Cao,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China

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• Jingqun Ao,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Engineering Research Center of Hainan Province for Blue Carbon and Coastal Wetland Conservation and Restoration, Hainan University, Hainan, China

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• Yongcan Zhou,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Funding acquisition

  Affiliations Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China, International Joint Research Center of Hainan Province for Blue Carbon and Coastal Wetland, Hainan University, Hainan, China, College of Marine Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

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• Yun Sun

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: syshui207@126.com

  Affiliations Sanya Institute of Breeding and Multiplication, School of Marine Biology and Fisheries, Collaborative Innovation Center of Marine Science and Technology, Hainan University, Hainan, China, International Joint Research Center of Hainan Province for Blue Carbon and Coastal Wetland, Hainan University, Hainan, China, College of Marine Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5805-7208

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