🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Ching Wooen Sze

Virginia Commonwealth University

ORCID: 0000-0003-0913-7567
Immunology and MicrobiologyMedicineAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Papers

Driven by 11 papers. Top paper: “Borrelia burgdorferi serine protease HtrA is a pleiotropic regulator of stress response, motility, flagellar hemostasis, and infectivity”.

Borrelia burgdorferi serine protease HtrA is a pleiotropic regulator of stress response, motility, flagellar hemostasis, and infectivity

Communications Biology(2025)10.1038/s42003-025-07781-x
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0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Ching Wooen Sze, Hang Zhao, Jun Liu, Chunhao Li, Kai Zhang

MCP5, a methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein regulated by both the Hk1-Rrp1 and Rrp2-RpoN-RpoS pathways, is required for the immune evasion of Borrelia burgdorferi

PLoS Pathogens(2024)10.1371/journal.ppat.1012327
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0.241DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Kai Zhang, Yan Zhang, Raj Priya, Ching Wooen Sze, Yongliang Lou +6 more

MCP5, a methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein regulated by both the Hk1-Rrp1 and Rrp2-RpoN-RpoS pathways, is required for the immune evasion of Borrelia burgdorferi

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.06.10.598185
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0.165DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Kai Zhang, Zhang Yan, Ching Wooen Sze, Raj Priya, Yongliang Luo +5 more

A pleiotropic role of sialidase in the pathogenicity of Porphyromonas gingivalis

Infection and Immunity(2024)10.1128/iai.00344-23
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0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Shuaiqi Guo, Xiao Han, Laurynn Coleman, Ching Wooen Sze, Huizhi Wang +3 more

Bacterial hide-and-seek: The role of the novel PG0352 sialidase in immune evasion

Biophysical Journal(2024)10.1016/j.bpj.2023.11.385
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0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Christopher K. Pham, Kurni Kurniyati, Ching Wooen Sze, Laurynn Coleman, Chunhao Li +2 more

A bipartite bacterial virulence factor targets the complement system and neutrophil activation

The EMBO Journal(2025)10.1038/s44318-024-00342-8
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4 citations

Nicholas D. Clark, Hongxia Wang, Yijie Deng, Ching Wooen Sze, Michelle B. Visser +3 more

Lactate dehydrogenase is the Achilles’ heel of Lyme disease bacterium Borreliella burgdorferi

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.02.07.637162
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0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Michael J. Lynch, Kai Zhang, David B. Neau, S.E. Ealick, Brian R. Crane +2 more

A chemosensory-like histidine kinase is dispensable for chemotaxis in vitro but regulates the virulence of Borrelia burgdorferi through modulating the stability of RpoS

PLoS Pathogens(2023)10.1371/journal.ppat.1011752
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12 citations

Kai Zhang, Michael J. Lynch, Radha Iyer, Brian R. Crane, Ira Schwartz +2 more

The Flagellin‐Specific Chaperone FliS of Borrelia burgdorferi Controls the Cytoplasmic Pool of Flagellins at the Level of Translation Initiation, Secretion, and Proteolysis

Molecular Microbiology(2025)10.1111/mmi.15380
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0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Kai Zhang, Michael J. Lynch, Wangbiao Guo, Jun Liu, Brian R. Crane +2 more

Functional and structural analyses reveal that a dual domain sialidase protects bacteria from complement killing through desialylation of complement factors

PLoS Pathogens(2023)10.1371/journal.ppat.1011674
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8 citations

Christopher K. Pham, Kurni Kurniyati, Ching Wooen Sze, Laurynn Coleman, Qin Fu +4 more

Chemotaxis Coupling Protein CheW 2 Is Not Required for the Chemotaxis but Contributes to the Full Pathogenicity of Borreliella burgdorferi

Infection and Immunity(2023)10.1128/iai.00008-23
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7 citations

Chunhao Li, Ching Wooen Sze