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Flagellin-deficient Legionella mutants evade caspase-1- and Naip5-mediated macrophage immunity.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Mar 2006
Ren Tao, Zamboni Dario S, Roy Craig R, Dietrich William F, Vance Russell E
Abstract excerpt
Macrophages from C57BL/6J (B6) mice restrict growth of the intracellular bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila. Restriction of bacterial growth requires caspase-1 and the leucine-rich repeat-containing protein Naip5 (Birc1e). We identified mutants of L. pneumophila that evade macrophage innate immunity. All mutants were deficient in expression of flagellin, the primary flagellar subunit, and failed to induce...
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