Staphylococcus aureus protein A causes osteoblasts to hyper-mineralise in a 3D extra-cellular matrix environment

• Nicola Kavanagh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Infection Research Group, Irish Centre for Vascular Biology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Tissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

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• Fergal J. O’Brien,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity Centre for Bioengineering, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Advanced Materials and Bioengineering Research (AMBER) Centre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• Steve W. Kerrigan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skerrigan@rcsi.ie

  Affiliations Cardiovascular Infection Research Group, Irish Centre for Vascular Biology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Tissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, School of Pharmacy and Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8945-5703

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