VIM and infection: Vimentin was implicated as an important target for Lm (strain 10403S) during the invasion of microvascular endothelial cells, including BBB models, in vitro (murine bEnd.3, human hCMEC, and HMEC-1 microvascular endothelial cell lines) and in vivo (murine infection model) and is also a known interaction partner for a number of bacterial pathogens [23,24,27].