Glycosaminoglycan Binding Facilitates Entry of a Bacterial Pathogen into Central Nervous Systems

• Yung-Chi Chang,

  Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Zhipeng Wang,

  Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lindsay A. Flax,

  Affiliation Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ding Xu,

  Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Jeffrey D. Esko,

  Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Victor Nizet ,

  * E-mail: vnizet@ucsd.edu (VN); mbaron@partners.org (MJB)

  Affiliations Glycobiology Research and Training Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Miriam J. Baron

  * E-mail: vnizet@ucsd.edu (VN); mbaron@partners.org (MJB)

  Affiliations Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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