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Correspondence to: Richard D. Cummings, Email: rdcummi@emory.edu
Author Contributions: S.R.S. and C.M.A. planned the project along with R.D.C. and carried out and analyzed the experiments, together with M.D.B, L.C.R., J.P.G., J.H.M., B.X., C.R., T.J., R.J.M., and D.F.S., who also helped to perform the experiments and provided critical support. S.R.S., C.M.A., J.H.M., and R.D.C. wrote the manuscript, which was additionally edited and commented on by the other authors.
We thank Sandy Cummings and Margaret Willard (Emory University) for technical assistance.
We also thank Peng George Wang (Ohio State University) for providing the original E. coli O86:B7 strain, as well as mutant versions of this strain lacking expression of either the Wzy or WaaL genes.
We obtained P. aeruginosa strain 8830 from Dr. Ananda Chakrabaty (University of Illinois College of Medicine) and plasmid pSMC21 encoding GFP from Dr. O'Toole (Dartmouth Medical School), We also thank the staff at the Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core Facility (Emory University) for their help with electron microscopy.
This work was supported by grants from the US National of Institutes of Health to R.D.C. (HL085607), D.F.S. (GM085448), and by resources from the Consortium for Functional Glycomics (Core D and Core H), funded by the US National Institute of General Medical Sciences/U.S. National of Institutes of Health (GM62116).
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