Steere AC, Coburn J, Glickstein L. (2005) Lyme Borreliosis. pp. 176-206 in Tick-Borne Infections of Humans. Edited by JL Goodman, JL, Dennis, DT and Sonenshine, DE. American Society of Microbiology Press.

Coburn, J., Fischer, J., and Leong, J.M. (2005) Solving a sticky problem: new genetic approaches to host cell adhesion by the Lyme disease spirochete. Molec. Microbiol. 57:1182-1195.

Behera, A. K., Hildebrand, E., Uematsu, S., Akira, S., Coburn, J., and Hu, L. T. 2006. Identification of a TLR-independent pathway for Borrelia burgdorferi-induced expression of matrix metalloproteinases and inflammatory mediators through binding to integrin α3β1. J. Immunol. 177: 657-664. [PubMed]

Glickstein, L., and Coburn, J. (2006) Macrophage Inflammatory Response and Cell Death Following Borrelia burgdorferi Infection in vitro Correlates with Arthritis Resistance. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 75:964-967.

Pinne, M., Thein, M., Denker, K., Benz, R., Coburn, J., and Bergström, S. (2007) Elimination of channel-forming activity by insertional inactivation of the p66 gene in Borrelia burgdorferi. FEMS Microbiol. Letts. 266:241- 249.

Coburn, J., Fisher, J. R., and Leong, J. M. 2005. Solving a sticky problem: new genetics approaches to host cell adhesion by the Lyme disease spirochete. Mol. Microbiol. 57:1182-1195. [PubMed]

Craig-Mylius, K., Weber, G. F., Coburn, J., and Glickstein, L. 2005. Borrelia burgdorferi, an extracellular pathogen, circumvents osteopontin in inducing an inflammatory cytokine response. J. Leuk. Biol. 77:710-718. PubMed

Steere, A. C., Coburn, J., Glickstein, L. 2004. The emergence of Lyme disease. J. Clin. Invest. 113: 1093-1101. PubMed

Rocha, C. L., Coburn, J., Rucks, E. A., Olson, J. C. 2003. Characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzyme S as a bifunctional enzyme in J774A.1 macrophages. Infect. Immun. 71: 5296-5305. PubMed

Coburn, J., and Cugini, C. 2003. Targeted mutation of the outer membrane protein P66 disrupts attachment of the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, to integrin avb3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100: 7301-7306. PubMed

Cugini, C., Medrano, M., Schwan, T. G., and Coburn, J. 2003. Regulation of expression of the Borrelia burgdorferi b3 chain integrin ligand, P66, in ticks and in culture. Infect. Immun. 71: 1001-1007. PubMed

Coburn, J., Medrano, M., and Cugini, C. 2002. Borrelia burgdorferi and its tropisms for adhesion molecules in the joint. Curr. Opin. Rheumatol. 14: 394-398. PubMed

Coburn, J. 2001. Adhesion mechanisms of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Curr. Drug Targets Infect. Disord. 1: 171-179. PubMed

Defoe, G. and Coburn, J. 2001. Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi p66 sequences required for integrin aIIbb3 recognition. Infect. Immun. 69: 3455-3459. PubMed

Ntchobo, H., Rothermel, H., Chege, W., Steere, A. C., and Coburn, J. 2001. Antibody responses to multiple epitopes of Borrelia burgdorferi p66, a candidate adhesin, in patients with various manifestations of Lyme disease. Infect. Immun. 69: 1953-1956. PubMed

Alugupalli, K. R., Michelson, A. D., Barnard, M. R., Robbins, D., Coburn, J., Baker, E. K., Ginsberg, M. H., Schwan, T. G., and Leong, J. M. 2001. Platelet activation by a relapsing fever spirochete results in enhanced bacterium-platelet interaction via integrin aIIbb3 activation. Mol. Microbiol. 39: 330-340. PubMed

Harjacek, M., Diaz-Cano, S., Alman, B. A., Coburn, J., Ruthazer, R., Wolfe, H., and Steere, A. C. 2000. Prominent expression of mRNA for proinflammatory cytokines in synovium in patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or chronic Lyme arthritis. J. Rheumatol. 27:497-503. PubMed

Coburn, J. and Leong, J. M. 2000. Arresting features of bacterial toxins. Science 290: 287-288. PubMed

Coburn, J., Chege, W., Magoun, L., Bodary, S. C., and Leong, J. M. 1999. Characterization of a candidate Borrelia burgdorferi b3 chain integrin ligand identified using a phage display library. Mol. Microbiol. 34: 926-940. PubMed

Carlson, D., Hernandez, J., Bloom, B. J., Coburn, J., Aversa, J. M., and Steere, A. C. 1999. Lack of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA in synovial samples from patients with treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis. Arthr. Rheumat. 42: 2705-2709. PubMed

Coburn, J. and Frank, D. W. 1999. Macrophages and epithelial cells respond differently to the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system. Infect. Immun. 67: 3151-3154. PubMed

Stockbauer, K. E., Magoun, L. Liu, M., Burns, E. H. Jr., Gubba, S., Renish, S., Pan. X., Bodary, S. C., Baker, E., Coburn, J., Leong, J. M., Musser, J. M. 1999. Natural variation in the critical extracellular cysteine protease virulence factor of group A Streptococcus: a single amino acid substitution confers preferential binding of an arginie-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) containing subtype made by highly invasive serotype M1 isolates to human integrins avb3 and aIIbb3. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96:242-247. PubMed

Coburn, J., Magoun, L., Bodary, S. C., and Leong, J. M. 1998. Integrins avb3 and a5b1 mediate attachment of Lyme disease spirochetes to human cells. Infect. Immun. 66: 1946-1952. PubMed

Leong, J. M., Wang, H., Magoun, L., Field, J., Morrissey, P. E., Robbins, D., Tatro, J. B., Coburn, J., and Parveen, N. 1998. Different classes of proteoglycans contribute to the attachment of Borrelia burgdorferi to cultured endothelial and brain cells. Infect. Immun. 66: 994-999. PubMed