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Wanda M Figueroa-Cuilan

Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineORCID 0000-0001-5510-5334Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintNov 13, 2026

A polarized genome is required for fitness of the obligate intracellular, tick-borne pathogen Rickettsia parkeri

Trung Nguyen, Andrew C Krusenstjerna, Mathilde Gonin…·Erin D Goley

This study shows that genome polarization is essential for Rickettsia parkeri's fitness, as disrupting polar proteins causes cell division defects and reduced host cell spread.

DOI 10.64898/2026.11.11.765969

bacteria (other)proteomics

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