Vimentin, a Novel NF-κB Regulator, Is Required for Meningitic Escherichia coli K1-Induced Pathogen Invasion and PMN Transmigration across the Blood-Brain Barrier

• Sheng-He Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Feng Chi, Liang Peng, Tao Bo

  * E-mail: yhzhou@hust.edu.cn (YHZ); shhuang@usc.edu (SHH)

  Affiliations Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropocal Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China

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• Feng Chi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Feng Chi, Liang Peng, Tao Bo

  Affiliations Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pathology, Southern California Research Center for ALPD and Cirrhosis, the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Liang Peng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Feng Chi, Liang Peng, Tao Bo

  Affiliations Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Clinic Laboratory, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510260, China

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• Tao Bo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng-He Huang, Feng Chi, Liang Peng, Tao Bo

  Affiliations Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Bao Zhang,

  Affiliations Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropocal Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China

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• Li-Qun Liu,

  Affiliations Saban Research Institute of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

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• Xuedong Wu,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China

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• Nirit Mor-Vaknin,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 5220 MSRB III, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• David M. Markovitz,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 5220 MSRB III, 1150 West Medical Center Drive, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

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• Hong Cao,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Public Health and Tropocal Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China

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• Yan-Hong Zhou

  * E-mail: yhzhou@hust.edu.cn (YHZ); shhuang@usc.edu (SHH)

  Affiliation Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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