Sphingosine kinase 1/S1P receptor signaling axis is essential for cellular uptake of Neisseria meningitidis in brain endothelial cells

• Ingo Fohmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Alina Weinmann,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Fabian Schumacher,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Simon Peters,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Agata Prell,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Cynthia Weigel,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Sarah Spiegel,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

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• Burkhard Kleuser,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Alexandra Schubert-Unkmeir

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: aunkmeir@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de

  Affiliation Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0870-7505

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