James Matsunaga

Leptospiral outer membrane proteins OmpL1 and LipL41 exhibit synergistic immunoprotection.

The leptospiral major outer membrane protein LipL32 is a lipoprotein expressed during mammalian infection.

Leptospiral proteins recognized during the humoral immune response to leptospirosis in humans.

Evaluation of recombinant Leptospira antigen-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for the serodiagnosis of leptospirosis.

Novel 45-kilodalton leptospiral protein that is processed to a 31-kilodalton growth-phase-regulated peripheral membrane protein.

Characterization of the leptospiral outer membrane and description of three novel leptospiral membrane proteins.

Pathogenic Leptospira species express surface-exposed proteins belonging to the bacterial immunoglobulin superfamily.

Osmolarity, a key environmental signal controlling expression of leptospiral proteins LigA and LigB and the extracellular release of LigA.

Surfaceome of Leptospira spp.

LruA and LruB, novel lipoproteins of pathogenic Leptospira interrogans associated with equine recurrent uveitis.

Lipoprotein computational prediction in spirochaetal genomes.

LipL46 is a novel surface-exposed lipoprotein expressed during leptospiral dissemination in the mammalian host.

Physiological osmotic induction of Leptospira interrogans adhesion: LigA and LigB bind extracellular matrix proteins and fibrinogen.

Leptospira immunoglobulin-like proteins as a serodiagnostic marker for acute leptospirosis.

Response of Leptospira interrogans to physiologic osmolarity: relevance in signaling the environment-to-host transition.

Osmotic regulation of expression of two extracellular matrix-binding proteins and a haemolysin of Leptospira interrogans: differential effects on LigA and Sph2 extracellular release.

Leptospira: a spirochaete with a hybrid outer membrane.

The multifunctional LigB adhesin binds homeostatic proteins with potential roles in cutaneous infection by pathogenic Leptospira interrogans.

A LigA three-domain region protects hamsters from lethal infection by Leptospira interrogans.

Antibodies to a novel leptospiral protein, LruC, in the eye fluids and sera of horses with Leptospira-associated uveitis.

Positive regulation of Leptospira interrogans kdp expression by KdpE as Demonstrated with a novel β-galactosidase reporter in Leptospira biflexa.

Leptospiral outer membrane protein microarray, a novel approach to identification of host ligand-binding proteins.

Role for cis-acting RNA sequences in the temperature-dependent expression of the multiadhesive lig proteins in Leptospira interrogans.

Kinetics of Leptospira interrogans infection in hamsters after intradermal and subcutaneous challenge.

Role of sph2 Gene Regulation in Hemolytic and Sphingomyelinase Activities Produced by Leptospira interrogans.

High-Throughput Parallel Sequencing to Measure Fitness of Leptospira interrogans Transposon Insertion Mutants during Acute Infection.

Immunoprotective properties of recombinant LigA and LigB in a hamster model of acute leptospirosis.