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Philip N. Rather, prather@emory.edu
PR and AT conceptualized and designed the study and experiments. AT carried out all of the experiments except the RNA sequencing, mouse experiments, and electron microscopy. CC performed the mouse experiments and subsequent data analysis. AT analysed all other data with guidance from PR. AT and CC wrote the original manuscript. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
We thank Dr. M. Pérez-Varela for critical reading of this manuscript and Drs. K.A. Tipton, S.E. Anderson, J.M. Colquhoun, and M. Pérez-Varela for their valuable input. We are grateful to Dr. Ayush Kumar at the University of Manitoba for providing pUC18T-mini-Tn7T-Apr-LAC. This work was supported in part by the Robert P. Apkarian Integrated Electron Microscopy Core at Emory University, and we especially thank Jeannette Taylor and Dr. Ricardo C. Guerrero for conducting the electron microscopy.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Research in the PNR Laboratory is supported by T32 AI106699 to AT and NIH R01 AI72219 and R21 AI115183 and Department of Veterans Affairs awards I01 BX001725 and IK6BX004470 to PR.
Research in the DSW Laboratory is supported by a Department of Veteran’s Affairs award BX002788.
DW is also supported by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award. The content expressed herein is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or the Department of Veterans Affairs.
© 2021 Tierney, Chin, Weiss and Rather