A Tick Gut Protein with Fibronectin III Domains Aids Borrelia burgdorferi Congregation to the Gut during Transmission

• Sukanya Narasimhan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sukanya Narasimhan, Jeroen Coumou

  * E-mail: sukanya.narasimhan@yale.edu (SN); J.W.Hovius@amc.uva.nl (JWH)

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Jeroen Coumou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sukanya Narasimhan, Jeroen Coumou

  Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Tim J. Schuijt,

  Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Eric Boder,

  Affiliation Department of Chemical and Biomolecular of Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Joppe W. Hovius ,

  * E-mail: sukanya.narasimhan@yale.edu (SN); J.W.Hovius@amc.uva.nl (JWH)

  ¶JWH and EF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Erol Fikrig

  ¶JWH and EF also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States of America

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