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Icm/dot-dependent upregulation of phagocytosis by Legionella pneumophila.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Nov 2001
Hilbi H, Segal G, Shuman H A
Abstract excerpt
Legionella pneumophila is the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, a severe pneumonia. Dependent on the icm/dot loci, L. pneumophila survives and replicates in macrophages and amoebae within a specialized phagosome that does not fuse with lysosomes. Here, we report that phagocytosis of wild-type L. pneumophila is more efficient than uptake of icm/dot mutants. Compared with the wild-type strain JR32, about 10...
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