Conserved Patterns of Microbial Immune Escape: Pathogenic Microbes of Diverse Origin Target the Human Terminal Complement Inhibitor Vitronectin via a Single Common Motif

• Teresia Hallström ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teresia Hallström, Birendra Singh

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany

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• Birendra Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Teresia Hallström, Birendra Singh

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

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• Peter Kraiczy,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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• Sven Hammerschmidt,

  Affiliation Department Genetics of Microorganisms, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Christine Skerka,

  Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany

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• Peter F. Zipfel ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Hans Knöll Institute, Jena, Germany, Faculty of Biology, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany

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• Kristian Riesbeck

  * E-mail: kristian.riesbeck@med.lu.se

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

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