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Ats-1
2 May 2013
Abstract excerpt
Obligatory intracellular life style and a small number of genes for biosynthesis and metabolism necessitate the Gram-negative bacterium, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, to depend on the host cell for nutrients. A. phagocytophilum resides in a membrane-bound inclusion, and secretes a protein, Ats-1 (Anaplasma translocated substrate-1), into the host cell cytoplasm. Ats-1 binds BECN1, a protein critical for autophagy...
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