MCP5, a methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein regulated by both the Hk1-Rrp1 and Rrp2-RpoN-RpoS pathways, is required for the immune evasion of Borrelia burgdorferi

• Sajith Raghunandanan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sajith Raghunandanan, Kai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Raj Priya

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

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Kai Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sajith Raghunandanan, Kai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Raj Priya

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Yan Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sajith Raghunandanan, Kai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Raj Priya

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

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• Raj Priya ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sajith Raghunandanan, Kai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Raj Priya

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Ching Wooen Sze,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Yongliang Lou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Sanitary Microbiology, Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China

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• Michael J. Lynch,

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

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Brian R. Crane,

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Mark H. Kaplan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Chunhao Li ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cli5@vcu.edu (CL); xfyang@iu.edu (XFY)

  Affiliation Department of Oral Craniofacial Molecular Biology, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• X. Frank Yang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cli5@vcu.edu (CL); xfyang@iu.edu (XFY)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7231-3167

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