About the Authors

Marina Aspholm

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Aspholm, Farzad O Olfat

Current address: Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Affiliations Department of Odontology, Section of Oral Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Farzad O Olfat

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Aspholm, Farzad O Olfat

Current address: Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Ministry of Environment, Singapore

Affiliations Department of Odontology, Section of Oral Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Jenny Nordén

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Berit Sondén

Affiliations Department of Odontology, Section of Oral Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Carina Lundberg

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Rolf Sjöström

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Siiri Altraja

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia

Stefan Odenbreit

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Department of Bacteriology, Munich, Germany,

Rainer Haas

Affiliation Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institute of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Department of Bacteriology, Munich, Germany,

Torkel Wadström

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Lars Engstrand

Affiliation The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

Cristina Semino-Mora

Affiliation Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hui Liu

Affiliation Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

André Dubois

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ADubois@usuhs.edu (AD); Thomas.Boren@medchem.umu.se (TB)

Affiliation Laboratory of Gastrointestinal and Liver Studies, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Susann Teneberg

Affiliation Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden

Anna Arnqvist

Affiliations Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden , Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Thomas Borén

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ADubois@usuhs.edu (AD); Thomas.Boren@medchem.umu.se (TB)

Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

In 2002 TB filed a patent application for the use of SabA as a vaccine candidate, International PCT pending number PCT/SE02/00301/ Helicobacter pylori sialic acid binding adhesin, SabA, and sabA gene.

Author Contributions

MA, FOO, JN, BS, CL, RS, SA, SO, CSM, HL, AD, ST, and AA conceived, designed and performed the experiments. MA, FOO, JN, BS, RS, AD, ST, and TB analyzed the data. SO, RH, AD, ST, and TB contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. MA, AD, and TB wrote the paper with the assistance of RH, TW, LE, ST, and AA.