Identification of the proteins of Borrelia garinii interacting with human brain microvascular endothelial cells, Tkáčová, Zuzana; Borszéková Pulzová, Lucia; Mochnáčová, Evelína; Jimenez Munguia, Irene; Bhide, Katarína; Mertinková, Patrícia; Majerová, Petra; Kulkarni, Amod; Kováč, Andrej; Bhide, Mangesh Ramesh. In Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. - ISSN 1877-959X. - Vol. 11, no. 4 (2020), art. no. 101451, p. [1-14]. (2019: 2.749 - IF, 2.896 - IF 5y, 39 - H-index, 1.182 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q2 - JCR Best Q).

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OCA1. Surname awarded to the assessed personBhide
OCA2. Name awarded to the assessed personMangesh Ramesh
OCA3. Degrees awarded to the assessed personprof. MVSc., PhD
OCA4. Hyperlink to the entry of the person in the Register of university staffhttps://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/6102
OCA5. Area of assessmentstudy programme microbiology and immunology · III. degree
OCA6. Category of the research/artistic/other outputscientific output
OCA7. Year of publication of the research/artistic/other output2020
OCA8. ID of the record in the Central Registry of Publication Activity (CRPA) or the Central Registry of Artistic Activity (CRAA)ID = 203871
OCA9. Hyperlink to the record in CRPA or CRAAhttps://app.crepc.sk/?fn=detailBiblioFormChildU7GMB&sid=BEDB5CC6AC5331222198D0F4C4&seo=CREP%C4%8C-detail-%C4%8Cl%C3%A1nok
Characteristics of the output that is not registered in CRPA or CRAA
OCA10. Hyperlink to the record in another publicly accessible register, catalogue of research/ artistic/other outputshttps://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85083838639&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&sid=c3f7f2bbfc9303e9d5dac1dfe48e4d1e&sot=b&sdt=b&sl=126&s=TITLE-ABS-KEY%28Identification+of+the+proteins+of+Borrelia+garinii+interacting+with+human+brain+microvascular+endothelial+cells%29&relpos=0&citeCnt=2&searchTerm=&featureToggles=FEATURE_NEW_METRICS_SECTION:1
OCA11. Characteristics of the output in the format of the CRPA or the CRAA bibliographic record, if the output is not available in a publicly accessible register or catalogue of outputsIdentification of the proteins of Borrelia garinii interacting with human brain microvascular endothelial cells, Tkáčová, Zuzana; Borszéková Pulzová, Lucia; Mochnáčová, Evelína; Jimenez Munguia, Irene; Bhide, Katarína; Mertinková, Patrícia; Majerová, Petra; Kulkarni, Amod; Kováč, Andrej; Bhide, Mangesh Ramesh. In Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases. - ISSN 1877-959X. - Vol. 11, no. 4 (2020), art. no. 101451, p. [1-14]. (2019: 2.749 - IF, 2.896 - IF 5y, 39 - H-index, 1.182 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q2 - JCR Best Q).
OCA12. Type of the output (if the output is not registered in CRPA or CRAA) article
OCA13. Hyperlink to the webpage where the output is available (full text, other documentation, etc.)https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877959X19304649
OCA14. Characteristics of the author's contributionThe author is the bearer of ideas and the main researcher of all research in the field
OCA15. Annotation of the output with contextual information concerning the description of creative process and the content of the research/artistic/other activity, etc.
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OCA16. Annotation of the output in EnglishLyme borreliosis is one of the major tick-borne diseases in Europe. Events of the translocation across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) involve multiple interactions between borrelial surface proteins and receptors on the brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMECs). In this study, we aimed to identify proteins of Borrelia that interact with hBMECs. The surface proteome of live Borrelia (a neuroinvasive strain of B. garinii) was crosslinked with biotin prior to its incubation with hBMECs. The interacting proteins were recovered by affinity purification, followed by SWATH-MS. Twenty-four interacting candidates were grouped into outer membrane proteins (n = 12) and inner membrane proteins (n = 12) based on the subcellular location (LocateP). Other algorithms like TMHMM 2.0 and LipoP, ontology search and literature review were subsequently applied to each of the identified protein candidates to shortlist the most probable interactors. Six proteins namely, LysM domain protein, BESBP-5, Antigen S1, CRASP-1 (Bg071), Erp23 protein and Mlp family Lipoprotein were selected to produce recombinant forms and experimentally validate their interaction with hBMECs. We present here a high-throughput approach of generating a dataset of plausible borrelial ligands followed by a systematic bioinformatic pipeline to categorize the proteins for experimental validation.
OCA17. List of maximum 5 most significant citations corresponding to the outputBacterial extracellular dna promotes β-amyloid aggregation, Microorganisms 9(6),1301, 2021 Conserved lysine residues in decorin binding proteins of Borrelia garinii are critical in adhesion to human brain microvascular endothelial cells, Molecular Microbiology 115(6), pp. 1395-1409, 2021
OCA18. Characteristics of the output's impact on socio-economic practiceThe output reveals an interactoma between Borrelia and brain microvascular endothelial cells (hBMECs). Recognition of the interactions of the neuroinvasive bacterium Borrelia garinii with BMEC allows further development of targeted ligand-blocking therapeutic agents.
OCA19. Characteristics of the output and related activities' impact on the educational process/ The output describes our procedure for the identification of the interactoma of neuroinvasive pathogens. The procedure includes methods of culturing hBMECs, Borrelia, proteome biotinilization, SWATH-MS, bioinformatics analysis of the obtained data, cloning process and preparation of recombinant proteins, as well as the use of antigenic methods in biological validation of interactions. The methodology of this article can be used in the educational process. It can also be a model for identifying the interactoma of other pathogens during further doctoral studies.

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