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Lewis LA, Shafer WM, Dutta Ray T, Ram S, Rice PA. Phosphoethanolamine Residues on the Lipid A Moiety of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide Modulate Binding of Complement Inhibitors and Resistance to Complement-Killing. Infect Immun. 2012 Oct 15.
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Toussi DN, Carraway M, Wetzler LM, Lewis LA, Liu X, Massari P. The Amino Acid Sequence of Neisseria lactamica PorB Surface-Exposed Loops Influences Toll-Like Receptor 2-Dependent Cell Activation. Infect Immun. 2012 Oct; 80(10):3417-28.
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Lewis LA, Carter M, Ram S. The relative roles of factor h binding protein, neisserial surface protein a, and lipooligosaccharide sialylation in regulation of the alternative pathway of complement on meningococci. J Immunol. 2012 May 15; 188(10):5063-72.
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Vu DM, Shaughnessy J, Lewis LA, Ram S, Rice PA, Granoff DM. Enhanced Bacteremia in Human Factor H Transgenic Rats Infected by Neisseria meningitidis. Infect Immun. 2011 Nov 21.
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Dutta Ray T, Lewis LA, Gulati S, Rice PA, Ram S. Novel Blocking Human IgG Directed against the Pentapeptide Repeat Motifs of Neisseria meningitidis Lip/H.8 and Laz Lipoproteins. J Immunol. 2011 Apr 15; 186(8):4881-94.
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Ram S, Lewis LA, Agarwal S. Meningococcal group w-135 and y capsular polysaccharides paradoxically enhance activation of the alternative pathway of complement. J Biol Chem. 2011 Mar 11; 286(10):8297-307.
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Ram S, Lewis LA, Rice PA. Infections of people with complement deficiencies and patients who have undergone splenectomy. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2010 Oct; 23(4):740-80.
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Lewis LA, Ngampasutadol J, Wallace R, Reid JE, Vogel U, Ram S. The meningococcal vaccine candidate neisserial surface protein A (NspA) binds to factor H and enhances meningococcal resistance to complement. PLoS Pathog. 2010; 6(7):e1001027.
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Serruto D, Spadafina T, Ciucchi L, Lewis LA, Ram S, Tontini M, Santini L, Biolchi A, Seib KL, Giuliani MM, Donnelly JJ, Berti F, Savino S, Scarselli M, Costantino P, Kroll JS, O'Dwyer C, Qiu J, Plaut AG, Moxon R, Rappuoli R, Pizza M, Aricò B. Neisseria meningitidis GNA2132, a heparin-binding protein that induces protective immunity in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Feb 23; 107(8):3770-5.
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Shaughnessy J, Lewis LA, Jarva H, Ram S. Functional comparison of the binding of factor H short consensus repeat 6 (SCR 6) to factor H binding protein from Neisseria meningitidis and the binding of factor H SCR 18 to 20 to Neisseria gonorrhoeae porin. Infect Immun. 2009 May; 77(5):2094-103.
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Lewis LA, Choudhury B, Balthazar JT, Martin LE, Ram S, Rice PA, Stephens DS, Carlson R, Shafer WM. Phosphoethanolamine substitution of lipid A and resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to cationic antimicrobial peptides and complement-mediated killing by normal human serum. Infect Immun. 2009 Mar; 77(3):1112-20.
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Lewis LA, Ram S, Prasad A, Gulati S, Getzlaff S, Blom AM, Vogel U, Rice PA. Defining targets for complement components C4b and C3b on the pathogenic neisseriae. Infect Immun. 2008 Jan; 76(1):339-50.
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Ram S, Ngampasutadol J, Cox AD, Blom AM, Lewis LA, St Michael F, Stupak J, Gulati S, Rice PA. Heptose I glycan substitutions on Neisseria gonorrhoeae lipooligosaccharide influence C4b-binding protein binding and serum resistance. Infect Immun. 2007 Aug; 75(8):4071-81.
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Madico G, Welsch JA, Lewis LA, McNaughton A, Perlman DH, Costello CE, Ngampasutadol J, Vogel U, Granoff DM, Ram S. The meningococcal vaccine candidate GNA1870 binds the complement regulatory protein factor H and enhances serum resistance. J Immunol. 2006 Jul 1; 177(1):501-10.
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Gulati S, Cox A, Lewis LA, Michael FS, Li J, Boden R, Ram S, Rice PA. Enhanced factor H binding to sialylated Gonococci is restricted to the sialylated lacto-N-neotetraose lipooligosaccharide species: implications for serum resistance and evidence for a bifunctional lipooligosaccharide sialyltransferase in Gonococci. Infect Immun. 2005 Nov; 73(11):7390-7.
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Harrison A, Dyer DW, Gillaspy A, Ray WC, Mungur R, Carson MB, Zhong H, Gipson J, Gipson M, Johnson LS, Lewis L, Bakaletz LO, Munson RS. Genomic sequence of an otitis media isolate of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae: comparative study with H. influenzae serotype d, strain KW20. J Bacteriol. 2005 Jul; 187(13):4627-36.
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Munson RS, Harrison A, Gillaspy A, Ray WC, Carson M, Armbruster D, Gipson J, Gipson M, Johnson L, Lewis L, Dyer DW, Bakaletz LO. Partial analysis of the genomes of two nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae otitis media isolates. Infect Immun. 2004 May; 72(5):3002-10.
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Williams WA, Hendrickson A, Gillaspy AF, Dyer DW, Lewis LA. Oligonucleotide analysis by sequential injection before analysis (SIBA) capillary electrophoresis. Anal Biochem. 2003 Feb 1; 313(1):183-5.
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Rohde KH, Gillaspy AF, Hatfield MD, Lewis LA, Dyer DW. Interactions of haemoglobin with the Neisseria meningitidis receptor HpuAB: the role of TonB and an intact proton motive force. Mol Microbiol. 2002 Jan; 43(2):335-54.
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Lewis LA, Gipson M, Hartman K, Ownbey T, Vaughn J, Dyer DW. Phase variation of HpuAB and HmbR, two distinct haemoglobin receptors of Neisseria meningitidis DNM2. Mol Microbiol. 1999 Jun; 32(5):977-89.
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Lewis LA, Sung MH, Gipson M, Hartman K, Dyer DW. Transport of intact porphyrin by HpuAB, the hemoglobin-haptoglobin utilization system of Neisseria meningitidis. J Bacteriol. 1998 Nov; 180(22):6043-7.
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Lewis LA, Rohde K, Gipson M, Behrens B, Gray E, Toth SI, Roe BA, Dyer DW. Identification and molecular analysis of lbpBA, which encodes the two-component meningococcal lactoferrin receptor. Infect Immun. 1998 Jun; 66(6):3017-23.
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Lewis LA, Gray E, Wang YP, Roe BA, Dyer DW. Molecular characterization of hpuAB, the haemoglobin-haptoglobin-utilization operon of Neisseria meningitidis. Mol Microbiol. 1997 Feb; 23(4):737-49.
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Chen CJ, Sparling PF, Lewis LA, Dyer DW, Elkins C. Identification and purification of a hemoglobin-binding outer membrane protein from Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Infect Immun. 1996 Dec; 64(12):5008-14.
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Lewis LA, Dyer DW. Identification of an iron-regulated outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis involved in the utilization of hemoglobin complexed to haptoglobin. J Bacteriol. 1995 Mar; 177(5):1299-306.
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Quinn ML, Weyer SJ, Lewis LA, Dyer DW, Wagner PM. Insertional inactivation of the gene for the meningococcal lactoferrin binding protein. Microb Pathog. 1994 Oct; 17(4):227-37.
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