Vascular binding of a pathogen under shear force through mechanistically distinct sequential interactions with host macromolecules

The heterogeneous motility of the Lyme disease spirochete in gelatin mimics dissemination through tissue

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Borrelia burgdorferi Requires the Alternative Sigma Factor RpoS for Dissemination within the Vector during Tick-to-Mammal Transmission

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Allelic Variation of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhesin DbpA Influences Spirochetal Binding to Decorin, Dermatan Sulfate, and Mammalian Cells

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Structural and Functional Analysis of the Tandem β-Zipper Interaction of a Streptococcal Protein with Human Fibronectin

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Bioluminescent imaging of Borrelia burgdorferi in vivo demonstrates that the fibronectin-binding protein BBK32 is required for optimal infectivity

(2011) Jenny A. Hyde et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Invasion of Eukaryotic Cells byBorrelia burgdorferiRequires β1Integrins and Src Kinase Activity

(2010) Jing Wu et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Complement Regulator–Acquiring Surface Protein 1 ofBorrelia burgdorferiBinds to Human Bone Morphogenic Protein 2, Several Extracellular Matrix Proteins, and Plasminogen

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An intravascular immune response to Borrelia burgdorferi involves Kupffer cells and iNKT cells

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Mechanochemistry of receptor–ligand bonds

(2009) Wendy E Thomas   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Borrelia burgdorferi RevA Antigen Binds Host Fibronectin

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Identification of the Determinant Conferring Permissive Substrate Usage in the Telomere Resolvase, ResT

(2009) Tara J. Moriarty et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Live imaging reveals a biphasic mode of dissemination of Borrelia burgdorferi within ticks

(2009) Star M. Dunham-Ems et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

The giant extracellular matrix-binding protein ofStaphylococcus epidermidismediates biofilm accumulation and attachment to fibronectin

(2009) Martin Christner et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

A Novel Fibronectin Binding Motif in MSCRAMMs Targets F3 Modules

(2009) Sabitha Prabhakaran et al.   PLoS One

Leukocyte trafficking and pain behavioral responses to a hydrogen sulfide donor in acute monoarthritis

(2008) Benjamin Andruski et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Replacing a Lectin Domain Residue in L-selectin Enhances Binding to P-selectin Glycoprotein Ligand-1 but Not to 6-Sulfo-sialyl Lewis x

(2008) Arkadiusz G. Klopocki et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Vascular Interactions of the Lyme Disease Pathogen in a Living Host

(2008) M. Ursula Norman et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Real-Time High Resolution 3D Imaging of the Lyme Disease Spirochete Adhering to and Escaping from the Vasculature of a Living Host

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