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The Giant Protein Ebh Is a Determinant of Staphylococcus aureus Cell Size and Complement Resistance

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Structure of Complement C6 Suggests a Mechanism for Initiation and Unidirectional, Sequential Assembly of Membrane Attack Complex (MAC)

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A Metalloproteinase Karilysin Present in the Majority of Tannerella forsythia Isolates Inhibits All Pathways of the Complement System

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Genome Stability of Lyme Disease Spirochetes: Comparative Genomics of Borrelia burgdorferi Plasmids

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Molecular Interaction Studies Using Microscale Thermophoresis

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Structure of Human C8 Protein Provides Mechanistic Insight into Membrane Pore Formation by Complement

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Identification and functional characterisation of Complement Regulator Acquiring Surface Protein-1 of serum resistant Borrelia garinii OspA serotype 4

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Inadequate Binding of Immune Regulator Factor H Is Associated with Sensitivity of Borrelia lusitaniae to Human Complement

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(2010) Daniel Ricklin et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Complement Factor H-Related Proteins CFHR2 and CFHR5 Represent Novel Ligands for the Infection-Associated CRASP Proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi

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Fast, adaptive evolution at a bacterial host-resistance locus: The PFam54 gene array in Borrelia burgdorferi

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(2009) Peter F. Zipfel   IMMUNOLOGY LETTERS

CspA-Mediated Binding of Human Factor H Inhibits Complement Deposition and Confers Serum Resistance in Borrelia burgdorferi

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Mutational analyses of the BbCRASP-1 protein of Borrelia burgdorferi identify residues relevant for the architecture and binding of host complement regulators FHL-1 and factor H

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Complement evasion strategies of pathogens—Acquisition of inhibitors and beyond

(2009) Anna M. Blom et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Identification and characterization of the factor H and FHL-1 binding complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.

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Deciphering the Ligand-binding Sites in theBorrelia burgdorferiComplement Regulator-acquiring Surface Protein 2 Required for Interactions with the Human Immune Regulators Factor H and Factor H-like Protein 1

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Complement evasion by human pathogens

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Epidemiological aspects and molecular characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. from southern Germany with special respect to the new species Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.

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