Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Modulates Immune Responses and Its Curli Fimbriae Interact with the Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37

• Ylva Kai-Larsen ,

  ¶a Equal contributors, in alphabetical order.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Petra Lüthje ,

  ¶a Equal contributors, in alphabetical order.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Milan Chromek,

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pediatrics, CLINTEC, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Verena Peters,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Xiaoda Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Åsa Holm,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Lavinia Kádas,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Kjell-Olof Hedlund,

  Affiliation Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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• Jan Johansson,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, SLU, The Biomedical Centre, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Matthew R. Chapman,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Stefan H. Jacobson,

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Danderyd University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ute Römling,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Birgitta Agerberth ,

  ¶b Joint senior authors.

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Annelie Brauner

  * E-mail: Annelie.Brauner@ki.se

  ¶b Joint senior authors.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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