C/EBP-β-regulated complement hyperactivation in spleen of SFTSV-infected mice: A clue to targeted complement therapy

• Yan Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Liu, Meng Xu, Xihua Huang, Xiaohan Liu

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Safe Mining of Deep Coal Resources and Environment Protection, School of Public Health, Anhui University of Science and Technology, Huainan, China, Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Zoonoses, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Meng Xu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Liu, Meng Xu, Xihua Huang, Xiaohan Liu

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Xihua Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Liu, Meng Xu, Xihua Huang, Xiaohan Liu

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Xiaohan Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Liu, Meng Xu, Xihua Huang, Xiaohan Liu

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Kai Fan,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Yingying Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Chen Xing,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Hailin Tang,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Naval Medicine, Navy Medical University, Shanghai, China

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• Jiayue Jiang,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation The Second Clinical Medical School, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Kehan Xu,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Zoonoses, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Maozhang He,

  Roles Software

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Zoonoses, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Gang Xu,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Cong Zhang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: zcong93@ahmu.edu.cn

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Zoonoses, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, Department of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5560-6013

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