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  1. Shaughnessy J, Chabeda A, Lewis LA, Ram S. Alternative pathway amplification and infections. Immunol Rev. 2023 01; 313(1):162-180.
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    Score: 0.030
  2. Shaughnessy J, Chabeda A, Tran Y, Zheng B, Nowak N, Steffens C, DeOliveira RB, Gulati S, Lewis LA, Maclean J, Moss JA, Wycoff KL, Ram S. An optimized Factor H-Fc fusion protein against multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:975676.
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    Score: 0.030
  3. Shaughnessy J, Tran Y, Zheng B, DeOliveira RB, Gulati S, Song WC, Maclean JM, Wycoff KL, Ram S. Development of Complement Factor H-Based Immunotherapeutic Molecules in Tobacco Plants Against Multidrug-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Front Immunol. 2020; 11:583305.
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    Score: 0.026
  4. Gulati S, Schoenhofen IC, Lindhout-Djukic T, Schur MJ, Landig CS, Saha S, Deng L, Lewis LA, Zheng B, Varki A, Ram S. Therapeutic CMP-Nonulosonates against Multidrug-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Immunol. 2020 06 15; 204(12):3283-3295.
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    Score: 0.026
  5. Lewis LA, Ram S. Complement interactions with the pathogenic Neisseriae: clinical features, deficiency states, and evasion mechanisms. FEBS Lett. 2020 08; 594(16):2670-2694.
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    Score: 0.025
  6. Lewis LA, Panicker S, DeOliveira RB, Parry GC, Ram S. Effect of a C1s Inhibitor on the Efficacy of Anti-Capsular Antibodies against Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Immunohorizons. 2019 11 05; 3(11):519-530.
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    Score: 0.025
  7. McQuillen DP, Ram S. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Eculizumab and Invasive Neisserial Infections. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 08 01; 69(4):601-603.
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    Score: 0.024
  8. Gulati S, Beurskens FJ, de Kreuk BJ, Roza M, Zheng B, DeOliveira RB, Shaughnessy J, Nowak NA, Taylor RP, Botto M, He X, Ingalls RR, Woodruff TM, Song WC, Schuurman J, Rice PA, Ram S. Complement alone drives efficacy of a chimeric antigonococcal monoclonal antibody. PLoS Biol. 2019 06; 17(6):e3000323.
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    Score: 0.024
  9. Lewis LA, Rice PA, Ram S. Role of Gonococcal Neisserial Surface Protein A (NspA) in Serum Resistance and Comparison of Its Factor H Binding Properties with Those of Its Meningococcal Counterpart. Infect Immun. 2019 02; 87(2).
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    Score: 0.023
  10. Gulati S, Rice PA, Ram S. Complement-Dependent Serum Bactericidal Assays for Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Methods Mol Biol. 2019; 1997:267-280.
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    Score: 0.023
  11. Shaughnessy J, Lewis LA, Zheng B, Carr C, Bass I, Gulati S, DeOliveira RB, Gose S, Reed GW, Botto M, Rice PA, Ram S. Human Factor H Domains 6 and 7 Fused to IgG1 Fc Are Immunotherapeutic against Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Immunol. 2018 11 01; 201(9):2700-2709.
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    Score: 0.023
  12. Ram S, Gulati S, Lewis LA, Chakraborti S, Zheng B, DeOliveira RB, Reed GW, Cox AD, Li J, St Michael F, Stupak J, Su XH, Saha S, Landig CS, Varki A, Rice PA. A Novel Sialylation Site on Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide Links Heptose II Lactose Expression with Pathogenicity. Infect Immun. 2018 08; 86(8).
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    Score: 0.023
  13. Ram S, Shaughnessy J, DeOliveira RB, Lewis LA, Gulati S, Rice PA. Utilizing complement evasion strategies to design complement-based antibacterial immunotherapeutics: Lessons from the pathogenic Neisseriae. Immunobiology. 2016 10; 221(10):1110-23.
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    Score: 0.019
  14. Chakraborti S, Lewis LA, Cox AD, St Michael F, Li J, Rice PA, Ram S. Phase-Variable Heptose I Glycan Extensions Modulate Efficacy of 2C7 Vaccine Antibody Directed against Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide. J Immunol. 2016 06 01; 196(11):4576-86.
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    Score: 0.019
  15. Shaughnessy J, Gulati S, Agarwal S, Unemo M, Ohnishi M, Su XH, Monks BG, Visintin A, Madico G, Lewis LA, Golenbock DT, Reed GW, Rice PA, Ram S. A Novel Factor H-Fc Chimeric Immunotherapeutic Molecule against Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Immunol. 2016 Feb 15; 196(4):1732-40.
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    Score: 0.019
  16. Gulati S, Schoenhofen IC, Whitfield DM, Cox AD, Li J, St Michael F, Vinogradov EV, Stupak J, Zheng B, Ohnishi M, Unemo M, Lewis LA, Taylor RE, Landig CS, Diaz S, Reed GW, Varki A, Rice PA, Ram S. Utilizing CMP-Sialic Acid Analogs to Unravel Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide-Mediated Complement Resistance and Design Novel Therapeutics. PLoS Pathog. 2015 Dec; 11(12):e1005290.
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    Score: 0.019
  17. Agarwal S, Vasudhev S, DeOliveira RB, Ram S. Inhibition of the classical pathway of complement by meningococcal capsular polysaccharides. J Immunol. 2014 Aug 15; 193(4):1855-63.
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    Score: 0.017
  18. Lewis LA, Vu DM, Vasudhev S, Shaughnessy J, Granoff DM, Ram S. Factor H-dependent alternative pathway inhibition mediated by porin B contributes to virulence of Neisseria meningitidis. mBio. 2013 Oct 15; 4(5):e00339-13.
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    Score: 0.016
  19. Lewis LA, Ram S. Meningococcal disease and the complement system. Virulence. 2014 Jan 01; 5(1):98-126.
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    Score: 0.016
  20. 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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    Score: 0.015
  21. Gulati S, Agarwal S, Vasudhev S, Rice PA, Ram S. Properdin is critical for antibody-dependent bactericidal activity against Neisseria gonorrhoeae that recruit C4b-binding protein. J Immunol. 2012 Apr 01; 188(7):3416-25.
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    Score: 0.014
  22. Ray TD, 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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    Score: 0.014
  23. 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):8297-8307.
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    Score: 0.013
  24. 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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    Score: 0.013
  25. 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 Jul 29; 6(7):e1001027.
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    Score: 0.013
  26. Agarwal S, Ferreira VP, Cortes C, Pangburn MK, Rice PA, Ram S. An evaluation of the role of properdin in alternative pathway activation on Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Immunol. 2010 Jul 01; 185(1):507-16.
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    Score: 0.013
  27. 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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    Score: 0.012
  28. Welsch JA, Ram S. Factor H and neisserial pathogenesis. Vaccine. 2008 Dec 30; 26 Suppl 8:I40-5.
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    Score: 0.012
  29. Blom AM, Ram S. Contribution of interactions between complement inhibitor C4b-binding protein and pathogens to their ability to establish infection with particular emphasis on Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Vaccine. 2008 Dec 30; 26 Suppl 8:I49-55.
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    Score: 0.012
  30. Granoff DM, Welsch JA, Ram S. Binding of complement factor H (fH) to Neisseria meningitidis is specific for human fH and inhibits complement activation by rat and rabbit sera. Infect Immun. 2009 Feb; 77(2):764-9.
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    Score: 0.012
  31. 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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    Score: 0.010
  32. Madico G, Ngampasutadol J, Gulati S, Vogel U, Rice PA, Ram S. Factor H binding and function in sialylated pathogenic neisseriae is influenced by gonococcal, but not meningococcal, porin. J Immunol. 2007 Apr 01; 178(7):4489-97.
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    Score: 0.010
  33. 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 01; 177(1):501-10.
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    Score: 0.010
  34. Swan J, Toomey CB, Bergstrand M, Cuello HA, Robie J, Yu H, Yuan Y, Kooner AS, Chen X, Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Varki A, Gagneux P. The Sialome of the Retina, Alteration in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Pathology, and Potential Impacts on Complement Factor H. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2025 Jun 02; 66(6):81.
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    Score: 0.009
  35. Gill DS, Ram S, Rice PA. Biologic drug development for treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2025 Sep 11; 38(3):e0010724.
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    Score: 0.009
  36. Keeler AM, Zhan W, Ram S, Fitzgerald KA, Gao G. The curious case of AAV immunology. Mol Ther. 2025 May 07; 33(5):1946-1965.
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    Score: 0.009
  37. Bendapudi PK, Nazeen S, Ryu J, S?ylemez O, Robbins A, Rouaisnel B, O'Neil JK, Pokhriyal R, Yang M, Colling M, Pasko B, Bouzinier M, Tomczak L, Collier L, Barrios D, Ram S, Toth-Petroczy A, Krier J, Fieg E, Dzik WH, Hudspeth JC, Pozdnyakova O, Nardi V, Knight J, Maas R, Sunyaev S, Losman JA. Low-frequency inherited complement receptor variants are associated with purpura fulminans. Blood. 2024 03 14; 143(11):1032-1044.
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    Score: 0.008
  38. Foss S, Sakya SA, Aguinagalde L, Lustig M, Shaughnessy J, Cruz AR, Scheepmaker L, Mathiesen L, Ruso-Julve F, Anthi AK, Gj?lberg TT, Mester S, Bern M, Evers M, Bratlie DB, Michaelsen TE, Schlothauer T, Sok D, Bhattacharya J, Leusen J, Valerius T, Ram S, Rooijakkers SHM, Sandlie I, Andersen JT. Human IgG Fc-engineering for enhanced plasma half-life, mucosal distribution and killing of cancer cells and bacteria. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 07; 15(1):2007.
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    Score: 0.008
  39. Menon SS, Ramirez-Toloza G, Wycoff KL, Ehinger S, Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Ferreira VP. Mechanisms by which Factor H protects Trypanosoma cruzi from the alternative pathway of complement. Front Immunol. 2024; 15:1152000.
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    Score: 0.008
  40. Morrill SR, Saha S, Varki AP, Lewis WG, Ram S, Lewis AL. Gardnerella Vaginolysin Potentiates Glycan Molecular Mimicry by Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Infect Dis. 2023 11 28; 228(11):1610-1620.
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    Score: 0.008
  41. Ram S, Cox AD, Wright JC, Vogel U, Getzlaff S, Boden R, Li J, Plested JS, Meri S, Gulati S, Stein DC, Richards JC, Moxon ER, Rice PA. Neisserial lipooligosaccharide is a target for complement component C4b. Inner core phosphoethanolamine residues define C4b linkage specificity. J Biol Chem. 2003 Dec 19; 278(51):50853-62.
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    Score: 0.008
  42. Su X, Le W, Zhu X, Li S, Wang B, Madico G, Yang Z, Chaisson CE, McLaughlin RE, Gandra S, Yoon J, Zheng B, Lewis LA, Gulati S, Reed GW, Ram S, Rice PA. Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infection in Women Increases With Rising Gonococcal Burdens in Partners: Chlamydia Coinfection in Women Increases Gonococcal Burden. J Infect Dis. 2022 12 13; 226(12):2192-2203.
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    Score: 0.008
  43. Gulati S, Sastry K, Jensenius JC, Rice PA, Ram S. Regulation of the mannan-binding lectin pathway of complement on Neisseria gonorrhoeae by C1-inhibitor and alpha 2-macroglobulin. J Immunol. 2002 Apr 15; 168(8):4078-86.
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    Score: 0.007
  44. Bomback AS, Appel GB, Gipson DS, Hladunewich MA, Lafayette R, Nester CM, Parikh SV, Smith RJH, Trachtman H, Heeger PS, Ram S, Rovin BH, Ali S, Arceneaux N, Ashoor I, Bailey-Wickins L, Barratt J, Beck L, Cattran DC, Cravedi P, Erkan E, Fervenza F, Frazer-Abel AA, Fremeaux-Bacchi V, Fuller L, Gbadegesin R, Hogan JJ, Kiryluk K, le Quintrec-Donnette M, Licht C, Mahan JD, Pickering MC, Quigg R, Rheault M, Ronco P, Sarwal MM, Sethna C, Spino C, Stegall M, Vivarelli M, Feldman DL, Thurman JM. Improving Clinical Trials for Anticomplement Therapies in Complement-Mediated Glomerulopathies: Report of a Scientific Workshop Sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation. Am J Kidney Dis. 2022 04; 79(4):570-581.
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    Score: 0.007
  45. Bettoni S, Maziarz K, Stone MRL, Blaskovich MAT, Potempa J, Bazzo ML, Unemo M, Ram S, Blom AM. Serum Complement Activation by C4BP-IgM Fusion Protein Can Restore Susceptibility to Antibiotics in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:726801.
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    Score: 0.007
  46. Hart TM, Dupuis AP, Tufts DM, Blom AM, Starkey SR, Rego ROM, Ram S, Kraiczy P, Kramer LD, Diuk-Wasser MA, Kolokotronis SO, Lin YP. Host tropism determination by convergent evolution of immunological evasion in the Lyme disease system. PLoS Pathog. 2021 07; 17(7):e1009801.
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    Score: 0.007
  47. Gandra S, Ram S, Levitz SM. The "Black Fungus" in India: The Emerging Syndemic of COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis. Ann Intern Med. 2021 09; 174(9):1301-1302.
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    Score: 0.007
  48. Emmons TR, Giridharan T, Singel KL, Khan ANH, Ricciuti J, Howard K, Silva-Del Toro SL, Debreceni IL, Aarts CEM, Brouwer MC, Suzuki S, Kuijpers TW, Jongerius I, Allen LH, Ferreira VP, Schubart A, Sellner H, Eder J, Holland SM, Ram S, Lederer JA, Eng KH, Moysich KB, Odunsi K, Yaffe MB, Zsiros E, Segal BH. Mechanisms Driving Neutrophil-Induced T-cell Immunoparalysis in Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Immunol Res. 2021 07; 9(7):790-810.
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    Score: 0.007
  49. Saha S, Coady A, Sasmal A, Kawanishi K, Choudhury B, Yu H, Sorensen RU, Inostroza J, Schoenhofen IC, Chen X, M?nster-K?hnel A, Sato C, Kitajima K, Ram S, Nizet V, Varki A. Exploring the Impact of Ketodeoxynonulosonic Acid in Host-Pathogen Interactions Using Uptake and Surface Display by Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. mBio. 2021 01 19; 12(1).
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    Score: 0.007
  50. Muhuri M, Maeda Y, Ma H, Ram S, Fitzgerald KA, Tai PW, Gao G. Overcoming innate immune barriers that impede AAV gene therapy vectors. J Clin Invest. 2021 01 04; 131(1).
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    Score: 0.007
  51. Laabei M, Colineau L, Bettoni S, Maziarz K, Ermert D, Riesbeck K, Ram S, Blom AM. Antibacterial Fusion Proteins Enhance Moraxella catarrhalis Killing. Front Immunol. 2020; 11:2122.
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    Score: 0.007
  52. Ghanem KG, Ram S, Rice PA. The Modern Epidemic of Syphilis. Reply. N Engl J Med. 2020 06 11; 382(24):2380.
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    Score: 0.006
  53. Ghanem KG, Ram S, Rice PA. The Modern Epidemic of Syphilis. N Engl J Med. 2020 02 27; 382(9):845-854.
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    Score: 0.006
  54. Bettoni S, Shaughnessy J, Maziarz K, Ermert D, Gulati S, Zheng B, M?rgelin M, Jacobsson S, Riesbeck K, Unemo M, Ram S, Blom AM. C4BP-IgM protein as a therapeutic approach to treat Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections. JCI Insight. 2019 12 05; 4(23).
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    Score: 0.006
  55. Ermert D, Ram S, Laabei M. The hijackers guide to escaping complement: Lessons learned from pathogens. Mol Immunol. 2019 10; 114:49-61.
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    Score: 0.006
  56. Ermert D, Laabei M, Weckel A, M?rgelin M, Lundqvist M, Bj?rck L, Ram S, Linse S, Blom AM. The Molecular Basis of Human IgG-Mediated Enhancement of C4b-Binding Protein Recruitment to Group A Streptococcus. Front Immunol. 2019; 10:1230.
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    Score: 0.006
  57. Beernink PT, Ispasanie E, Lewis LA, Ram S, Moe GR, Granoff DM. A Meningococcal Native Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccine With Attenuated Endotoxin and Overexpressed Factor H Binding Protein Elicits Gonococcal Bactericidal Antibodies. J Infect Dis. 2019 03 15; 219(7):1130-1137.
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    Score: 0.006
  58. Singel KL, Emmons TR, Khan ANH, Mayor PC, Shen S, Wong JT, Morrell K, Eng KH, Mark J, Bankert RB, Matsuzaki J, Koya RC, Blom AM, McLeish KR, Qu J, Ram S, Moysich KB, Abrams SI, Odunsi K, Zsiros E, Segal BH. Mature neutrophils suppress T cell immunity in ovarian cancer microenvironment. JCI Insight. 2019 03 07; 4(5).
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    Score: 0.006
  59. Gulati S, Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Rice PA. Targeting Lipooligosaccharide (LOS) for a Gonococcal Vaccine. Front Immunol. 2019; 10:321.
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    Score: 0.006
  60. Marcinkiewicz AL, Dupuis AP, Zamba-Campero M, Nowak N, Kraiczy P, Ram S, Kramer LD, Lin YP. Blood treatment of Lyme borreliae demonstrates the mechanism of CspZ-mediated complement evasion to promote systemic infection in vertebrate hosts. Cell Microbiol. 2019 02; 21(2):e12998.
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    Score: 0.006
  61. Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Rice PA. Biology of the Gonococcus: Disease and Pathogenesis. Methods Mol Biol. 2019; 1997:1-27.
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    Score: 0.006
  62. Hart T, Nguyen NTT, Nowak NA, Zhang F, Linhardt RJ, Diuk-Wasser M, Ram S, Kraiczy P, Lin YP. Polymorphic factor H-binding activity of CspA protects Lyme borreliae from the host complement in feeding ticks to facilitate tick-to-host transmission. PLoS Pathog. 2018 05; 14(5):e1007106.
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    Score: 0.006
  63. Ermert D, Weckel A, Magda M, M?rgelin M, Shaughnessy J, Rice PA, Bj?rck L, Ram S, Blom AM. Human IgG Increases Virulence of Streptococcus pyogenes through Complement Evasion. J Immunol. 2018 05 15; 200(10):3495-3505.
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    Score: 0.006
  64. Ray TD, Mekasha S, Liang Y, Lu B, Ram S, Ingalls RR. Species-specific differences in regulation of macrophage inflammation by the C3a-C3a receptor axis. Innate Immun. 2018 01; 24(1):66-78.
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    Score: 0.005
  65. Blom AM, Magda M, Kohl L, Shaughnessy J, Lambris JD, Ram S, Ermert D. Factor H-IgG Chimeric Proteins as a Therapeutic Approach against the Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes. J Immunol. 2017 12 01; 199(11):3828-3839.
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    Score: 0.005
  66. Lujan E, Partridge E, Giuntini S, Ram S, Granoff DM. Breadth and Duration of Meningococcal Serum Bactericidal Activity in Health Care Workers and Microbiologists Immunized with the MenB-FHbp Vaccine. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2017 Aug; 24(8).
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    Score: 0.005
  67. Wong SM, Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Akerley BJ. Defining the Binding Region in Factor H to Develop a Therapeutic Factor H-Fc Fusion Protein against Non-Typeable Haemophilus influenzae. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2016; 6:40.
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    Score: 0.005
  68. Hirako IC, Gallego-Marin C, Ataide MA, Andrade WA, Gravina H, Rocha BC, de Oliveira RB, Pereira DB, Vinetz J, Diamond B, Ram S, Golenbock DT, Gazzinelli RT. DNA-Containing Immunocomplexes Promote Inflammasome Assembly and Release of Pyrogenic Cytokines by CD14+ CD16+ CD64high CD32low Inflammatory Monocytes from Malaria Patients. mBio. 2015 Nov 17; 6(6):e01605-15.
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    Score: 0.005
  69. Bartra SS, Ding Y, Miya Fujimoto L, Ring JG, Jain V, Ram S, Marassi FM, Plano GV. Yersinia pestis uses the Ail outer membrane protein to recruit vitronectin. Microbiology (Reading). 2015 Nov; 161(11):2174-2183.
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    Score: 0.005
  70. Ermert D, Shaughnessy J, Joeris T, Kaplan J, Pang CJ, Kurt-Jones EA, Rice PA, Ram S, Blom AM. Virulence of Group A Streptococci Is Enhanced by Human Complement Inhibitors. PLoS Pathog. 2015 Jul; 11(7):e1005043.
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    Score: 0.005
  71. Lewis LA, Gulati S, Burrowes E, Zheng B, Ram S, Rice PA. a-2,3-sialyltransferase expression level impacts the kinetics of lipooligosaccharide sialylation, complement resistance, and the ability of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to colonize the murine genital tract. mBio. 2015 Feb 03; 6(1).
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    Score: 0.004
  72. Giuntini S, Pajon R, Ram S, Granoff DM. Binding of complement factor H to PorB3 and NspA enhances resistance of Neisseria meningitidis to anti-factor H binding protein bactericidal activity. Infect Immun. 2015 Apr; 83(4):1536-45.
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    Score: 0.004
  73. Gulati S, Mu X, Zheng B, Reed GW, Ram S, Rice PA. Antibody to reduction modifiable protein increases the bacterial burden and the duration of gonococcal infection in a mouse model. J Infect Dis. 2015 Jul 15; 212(2):311-5.
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    Score: 0.004
  74. de Oliveira RB, Wang JP, Ram S, Gazzinelli RT, Finberg RW, Golenbock DT. Increased survival in B-cell-deficient mice during experimental cerebral malaria suggests a role for circulating immune complexes. mBio. 2014 Mar 18; 5(2):e00949-14.
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    Score: 0.004
  75. Del Tordello E, Vacca I, Ram S, Rappuoli R, Serruto D. Neisseria meningitidis NalP cleaves human complement C3, facilitating degradation of C3b and survival in human serum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jan 07; 111(1):427-32.
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    Score: 0.004
  76. Rosadini CV, Ram S, Akerley BJ. Outer membrane protein P5 is required for resistance of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae to both the classical and alternative complement pathways. Infect Immun. 2014 Feb; 82(2):640-9.
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    Score: 0.004
  77. Gulati S, Zheng B, Reed GW, Su X, Cox AD, St Michael F, Stupak J, Lewis LA, Ram S, Rice PA. Immunization against a saccharide epitope accelerates clearance of experimental gonococcal infection. PLoS Pathog. 2013; 9(8):e1003559.
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    Score: 0.004
  78. Granoff DM, Ram S, Beernink PT. Does binding of complement factor H to the meningococcal vaccine antigen, factor H binding protein, decrease protective serum antibody responses? Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2013 Aug; 20(8):1099-107.
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    Score: 0.004
  79. Brookes C, Kuisma E, Alexander F, Allen L, Tipton T, Ram S, Gorringe A, Taylor S. Development of a large scale human complement source for use in bacterial immunoassays. J Immunol Methods. 2013 May 31; 391(1-2):39-49.
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    Score: 0.004
  80. 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. 2013 Jan; 81(1):33-42.
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    Score: 0.004
  81. Serruto D, Bottomley MJ, Ram S, Giuliani MM, Rappuoli R. The new multicomponent vaccine against meningococcal serogroup B, 4CMenB: immunological, functional and structural characterization of the antigens. Vaccine. 2012 May 30; 30 Suppl 2:B87-97.
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    Score: 0.004
  82. Beernink PT, Shaughnessy J, Pajon R, Braga EM, Ram S, Granoff DM. The effect of human factor H on immunogenicity of meningococcal native outer membrane vesicle vaccines with over-expressed factor H binding protein. PLoS Pathog. 2012; 8(5):e1002688.
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    Score: 0.004
  83. 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. 2012 Feb; 80(2):643-50.
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    Score: 0.004
  84. Agarwal S, Specht CA, Haibin H, Ostroff GR, Ram S, Rice PA, Levitz SM. Linkage specificity and role of properdin in activation of the alternative complement pathway by fungal glycans. mBio. 2011; 2(5).
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    Score: 0.003
  85. Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Bhattacharjee A, Pedrosa J, Tran C, Horvath G, Monks B, Visintin A, Jokiranta TS, Rice PA. Molecular characterization of the interaction between sialylated Neisseria gonorrhoeae and factor H. J Biol Chem. 2011 Jun 24; 286(25):22235-42.
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    Score: 0.003
  86. Wong SM, St Michael F, Cox A, Ram S, Akerley BJ. ArcA-regulated glycosyltransferase lic2B promotes complement evasion and pathogenesis of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Immun. 2011 May; 79(5):1971-83.
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    Score: 0.003
  87. Beernink PT, Shaughnessy J, Braga EM, Liu Q, Rice PA, Ram S, Granoff DM. A meningococcal factor H binding protein mutant that eliminates factor H binding enhances protective antibody responses to vaccination. J Immunol. 2011 Mar 15; 186(6):3606-14.
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    Score: 0.003
  88. Agarwal S, Ram S, Ngampasutadol J, Gulati S, Zipfel PF, Rice PA. Factor H facilitates adherence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to complement receptor 3 on eukaryotic cells. J Immunol. 2010 Oct 01; 185(7):4344-53.
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    Score: 0.003
  89. Beernink PT, Shaughnessy J, Ram S, Granoff DM. Impaired immunogenicity of a meningococcal factor H-binding protein vaccine engineered to eliminate factor h binding. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2010 Jul; 17(7):1074-8.
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    Score: 0.003
  90. 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, Aric? 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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    Score: 0.003
  91. Sabharwal V, Ram S, Figueira M, Park IH, Pelton SI. Role of complement in host defense against pneumococcal otitis media. Infect Immun. 2009 Mar; 77(3):1121-7.
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    Score: 0.003
  92. Jongerius I, Ram S, Rooijakkers S. Bacterial complement escape. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2009; 666:32-48.
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    Score: 0.003
  93. Ngampasutadol J, Tran C, Gulati S, Blom AM, Jerse EA, Ram S, Rice PA. Species-specificity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection: do human complement regulators contribute? Vaccine. 2008 Dec 30; 26 Suppl 8:I62-6.
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    Score: 0.003
  94. 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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    Score: 0.003
  95. Garvin LE, Bash MC, Keys C, Warner DM, Ram S, Shafer WM, Jerse AE. Phenotypic and genotypic analyses of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates that express frequently recovered PorB PIA variable region types suggest that certain P1a porin sequences confer a selective advantage for urogenital tract infection. Infect Immun. 2008 Aug; 76(8):3700-9.
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    Score: 0.003
  96. Welsch JA, Ram S, Koeberling O, Granoff DM. Complement-dependent synergistic bactericidal activity of antibodies against factor H-binding protein, a sparsely distributed meningococcal vaccine antigen. J Infect Dis. 2008 Apr 01; 197(7):1053-61.
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    Score: 0.003
  97. Ngampasutadol J, Ram S, Gulati S, Agarwal S, Li C, Visintin A, Monks B, Madico G, Rice PA. Human factor H interacts selectively with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and results in species-specific complement evasion. J Immunol. 2008 Mar 01; 180(5):3426-35.
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    Score: 0.003
  98. 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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    Score: 0.003
  99. Jarva H, Ngampasutadol J, Ram S, Rice PA, Villoutreix BO, Blom AM. Molecular characterization of the interaction between porins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and C4b-binding protein. J Immunol. 2007 Jul 01; 179(1):540-7.
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    Score: 0.003
  100. Schneider MC, Exley RM, Ram S, Sim RB, Tang CM. Interactions between Neisseria meningitidis and the complement system. Trends Microbiol. 2007 May; 15(5):233-40.
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    Score: 0.003
  101. Ho DK, Ram S, Nelson KL, Bonthuis PJ, Smith AL. lgtC expression modulates resistance to C4b deposition on an invasive nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. J Immunol. 2007 Jan 15; 178(2):1002-12.
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    Score: 0.003
  102. Attia AS, Ram S, Rice PA, Hansen EJ. Binding of vitronectin by the Moraxella catarrhalis UspA2 protein interferes with late stages of the complement cascade. Infect Immun. 2006 Mar; 74(3):1597-611.
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    Score: 0.002
  103. Ngampasutadol J, Ram S, Blom AM, Jarva H, Jerse AE, Lien E, Goguen J, Gulati S, Rice PA. Human C4b-binding protein selectively interacts with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and results in species-specific infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Nov 22; 102(47):17142-7.
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    Score: 0.002
  104. 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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    Score: 0.002
  105. Abdullah M, Nepluev I, Afonina G, Ram S, Rice P, Cade W, Elkins C. Killing of dsrA mutants of Haemophilus ducreyi by normal human serum occurs via the classical complement pathway and is initiated by immunoglobulin M binding. Infect Immun. 2005 Jun; 73(6):3431-9.
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    Score: 0.002
  106. Jarva H, Ram S, Vogel U, Blom AM, Meri S. Binding of the complement inhibitor C4bp to serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis. J Immunol. 2005 May 15; 174(10):6299-307.
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    Score: 0.002
  107. Fisette PL, Ram S, Andersen JM, Guo W, Ingalls RR. The Lip lipoprotein from Neisseria gonorrhoeae stimulates cytokine release and NF-kappaB activation in epithelial cells in a Toll-like receptor 2-dependent manner. J Biol Chem. 2003 Nov 21; 278(47):46252-60.
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    Score: 0.002
  108. Massari P, Ram S, Macleod H, Wetzler LM. The role of porins in neisserial pathogenesis and immunity. Trends Microbiol. 2003 Feb; 11(2):87-93.
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    Score: 0.002
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