Immunogenicity of trimeric autotransporter adhesins and their potential as vaccine targets.

"This research was supported by the Viral and Bacterial Adhesin Network Training (ViBrANT) Program funded by the European Union’s HORIZON 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 765042, by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG FOR 2251], by the Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany (Bartonella consiliary laboratory, 1369-354) and by the LOEWE Center DRUID (Novel Drug Targets against Poverty-Related and Neglected Tropical Infectious Diseases, project C2). We thank Stephan Göttig (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Monika Schütz (Tübingen, Germany) and Ulrich Vogel (Würzburg, Germany) for proofreading this review. We also thank Jürgen Berger and Katharina Hipp (all Max Planck-Institute, Tübingen, Germany) for the electron microscopy. This article is published as part of the Special Issue on “Vibrant ITN”."