Recent discoveries of basal extracellular Rickettsiales have illuminated divergent
evolutionary paths to host dependency in later-evolving lineages. Family Rickettsiaceae …

Obligate intracellular bacteria in the order Rickettsiales are transmitted by arthropod vectors
and cause life-threatening infections in humans and animals. While both type 1 and type 4 …

Ehrlichia chaffeensis TRP120 effector has evolved short linear motif (SLiM) ligand mimicry to
repurpose multiple evolutionarily conserved cellular signaling pathways, including Wnt …

Ehrlichia chaffeensis has evolved multiple strategies to evade innate defenses of the
mononuclear phagocyte. Recently, we reported the E. chaffeensis tandem repeat protein …

Ehrlichia chaffeensis (E. chaffeensis) has evolved eukaryotic ligand mimicry to repurpose
multiple cellular signaling pathways for immune evasion. In this investigation, we …

Ehrlichia species are obligatory intracellular bacteria that cause a potentially fatal disease,
human ehrlichiosis. The biomolecular mechanisms of tick acquisition of Ehrlichia and …

As an obligately intracellular bacterial pathogen that selectively infects the mononuclear
phagocyte, Ehrlichia chaffeensis has evolved sophisticated mechanisms to subvert innate …

Ehrlichia chaffeensis: TRP120 is a multifunctional effector that acts as a ligand mimic to
activate evolutionary conserved eukaryotic signaling pathways Notch, Wnt, Hedgehog and …

Ehrlichia chaffeensis infects and proliferates inside monocytes or macrophages and causes
human monocytic ehrlichiosis (HME), an emerging life-threatening tick-borne zoonosis. After …

Ehrlichia chaffeensis TRP120 effector has evolved short linear motif (SLiM) ligand mimicry to
repurpose multiple evolutionarily conserved cellular signaling pathways including Wnt …