Acidic and alkaline conditions enhance Staphylococcus aureus α-toxin pore formation and cytotoxicity

• Tristan J. van der Linden,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0562-6357

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• Arnab Chatterjee,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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• Lisette M. Scheepmaker,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Debajyoti Chakraborty,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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• Somnath Dutta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Somnath Dutta, Bart W. Bardoel

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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• Bart W. Bardoel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Somnath Dutta, Bart W. Bardoel

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• András N. Spaan

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a.n.spaan@umcutrecht.nl

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5981-7259

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