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Legionella effectors that promote nonlytic release from protozoa.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 27 Feb 2004
Chen John, de Felipe Karim Suwwan, Clarke Margaret, Lu Hao, Anderson O Roger, Segal Gil, Shuman Howard A
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Legionella pneumophila, the bacterial agent of legionnaires' disease, replicates intracellularly within a specialized vacuole of mammalian and protozoan host cells. Little is known about the specialized vacuole except that the Icm/Dot type IV secretion system is essential for its formation and maintenance. The Legionella genome database contains two open reading frames encoding polypeptides (LepA and LepB) with...
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