Structural determination of the complement inhibitory domain of Borrelia burgdorferi BBK32 provides insight into classical pathway complement evasion by Lyme disease spirochetes

• Jialei Xie,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

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• Hui Zhi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6008-1541

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• Ryan J. Garrigues,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5923-3250

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• Andrew Keightley,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Brandon L. Garcia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon L. Garcia, Jon T. Skare

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: garciabr18@ecu.du (BLG); jskare@medicine.tamhsc.edu (JTS)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6724-8700

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• Jon T. Skare

  Contributed equally to this work with: Brandon L. Garcia, Jon T. Skare

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: garciabr18@ecu.du (BLG); jskare@medicine.tamhsc.edu (JTS)

  Affiliation Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Sciences Center, Bryan, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8378-7862

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