Bacterial amyloid curli acts as a carrier for DNA to elicit an autoimmune response via TLR2 and TLR9

• Sarah A. Tursi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Ernest Y. Lee,

  Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-2552

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• Nicole J. Medeiros,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4449-2441

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• Michael H. Lee,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Lauren K. Nicastro,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Bettina Buttaro,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Stefania Gallucci,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4737-8003

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• Ronald Paul Wilson,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Gerard C. L. Wong ,

  * E-mail: ctukel@temple.edu (CT); gclwong@seas.ucla.edu (GCLW)

  Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Çagla Tükel

  * E-mail: ctukel@temple.edu (CT); gclwong@seas.ucla.edu (GCLW)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-0226

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