The major diagnostic VSG LiTat 1.3 of the human parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is a trimer in solution

• Niki Danel,

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

  Affiliation Trypanosoma Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Rob Geens,

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

  Affiliation Trypanosoma Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Israel Mares-Mejía,

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

  Affiliations VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium, Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium

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• Wim Versées,

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

  Affiliations VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, VIB, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium, Structural Biology Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, Belgium

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• Jan Van Den Abbeele ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Van Den Abbeele, Yann G. J. Sterckx

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

  Affiliation Trypanosoma Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nationalestraat, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Yann G. J. Sterckx

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Van Den Abbeele, Yann G. J. Sterckx

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

  * E-mail: yann.sterckx@uantwerpen.be

  Affiliation Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry and the Infla-Med Centre of Excellence, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein1, Wilrijk, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7420-0983

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