Acinetobacter baumannii lipooligosaccharide core region promotes CD14-dependent TLR4 endocytosis and enhances pathogenicity through interferon-β production

• Yi-Tzu Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Tzu Lee, Te-Li Chen

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Te-Li Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Tzu Lee, Te-Li Chen

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate Institute of Life Sciences, College of Biomedical Sciences, National Defense Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shu-Chen Kuo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

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• Yu-Han Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Meng-Chang Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation School of Public Health, National Defense Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ming-Fen Chuang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Mei-Chei Tan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli County, Taiwan

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• I-Ming Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliations Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ya-Sung Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yung-Chih Wang

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wystwyst@gmail.com

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8491-8972

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