| Real-time high resolution 3D imaging of the lyme disease spirochete adhering to and escaping from the vasculature of a living host TJ Moriarty, MU Norman, P Colarusso, T Bankhead, P Kubes, ... PLoS pathogens 4 (6), e1000090, 2008 | 262 | 2008 |
| The role of VlsE antigenic variation in the Lyme disease spirochete: persistence through a mechanism that differs from other pathogens T Bankhead, G Chaconas Molecular microbiology 65 (6), 1547-1558, 2007 | 188 | 2007 |
| ‘Nothing is permanent but change’† – antigenic variation in persistent bacterial pathogens GH Palmer, T Bankhead, SA Lukehart Cellular microbiology 11 (12), 1697-1705, 2009 | 105 | 2009 |
| Variable VlsE is critical for host reinfection by the Lyme disease spirochete AS Rogovskyy, T Bankhead PloS one 8 (4), e61226, 2013 | 83 | 2013 |
| Antigenic variation in bacterial pathogens GH Palmer, T Bankhead, HS Seifert Virulence Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogens, 445-480, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| Mixing active-site components: a recipe for the unique enzymatic activity of a telomere resolvase T Bankhead, G Chaconas Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (38), 13768-13773, 2004 | 60 | 2004 |
| Differential Telomere Processing by Borrelia Telomere Resolvases In Vitro but Not In Vivo Y Tourand, T Bankhead, SL Wilson, AD Putteet-Driver, AG Barbour, ... Journal of bacteriology 188 (21), 7378-7386, 2006 | 45 | 2006 |
| Unexpected twist: harnessing the energy in positive supercoils to control telomere resolution T Bankhead, K Kobryn, G Chaconas Molecular microbiology 62 (3), 895-905, 2006 | 31 | 2006 |
| Evaluation of the Importance of VlsE Antigenic Variation for the Enzootic Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi AS Rogovskyy, T Casselli, Y Tourand, CR Jones, JP Owen, KL Mason, ... PloS one 10 (4), e0124268, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| The amino terminus of bacteriophage λ integrase is involved in protein-protein interactions during recombination L Jessop, T Bankhead, D Wong, AM Segall Journal of Bacteriology 182 (4), 1024-1034, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| Bacterial heterogeneity is a requirement for host superinfection by the Lyme disease spirochete AS Rogovskyy, T Bankhead Infection and Immunity 82 (11), 4542-4552, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Altered murine tissue colonization by Borrelia burgdorferi following targeted deletion of linear plasmid 17-carried genes T Casselli, Y Tourand, T Bankhead Infection and immunity 80 (5), 1773-1782, 2012 | 21 | 2012 |
| Role of the VlsE Lipoprotein in Immune Avoidance by the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi T Bankhead Onco Therapeutics 7 (3-4), 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| The Borrelia burgdorferi VlsE lipoprotein prevents antibody binding to an arthritis-related surface antigen AG Lone, T Bankhead Cell reports 30 (11), 3663-3670. e5, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Presence of Arp specifically contributes to joint tissue edema associated with early-onset Lyme arthritis PR Hove, GJ Haldorson, F Magunda, T Bankhead Infection and Immunity 82 (1), 43-51, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| Mutations at residues 282, 286, and 293 of phage λ integrase exert pathway-specific effects on synapsis and catalysis in recombination TM Bankhead, BJ Etzel, F Wolven, S Bordenave, JL Boldt, TA Larsen, ... Journal of bacteriology 185 (8), 2653-2666, 2003 | 14 | 2003 |
| Characterization of a mutation of bacteriophage λ integrase: putative role in core binding and strand exchange for a conserved residue T Bankhead, AM Segall Journal of Biological Chemistry 275 (47), 36949-36956, 2000 | 14 | 2000 |
| A small intergenic region of lp17 is required for evasion of adaptive immunity and induction of pathology by the Lyme disease spirochete T Casselli, MA Crowley, MA Highland, Y Tourand, T Bankhead Cellular microbiology 21 (7), e13029, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| Investigating the potential role of non-vls genes on linear plasmid 28–1 in virulence and persistence by Borrelia burgdorferi PRH Magunda, T Bankhead BMC microbiology 16, 1-9, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| Characterization of a DNA Adenine Methyltransferase Gene of Borrelia hermsii and Its Dispensability for Murine Infection and Persistence AE James, AS Rogovskyy, MA Crowley, T Bankhead PLoS One 11 (5), e0155798, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
