Bacterial Prison Break: A Host Protein Mimic Paves the Way.

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2018.07.016

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Bacterial Prison Break: A Host Protein Mimic Paves the Way.

Cell host & microbe - 8 Aug 2018

Jaggavarapu Siddharth, Weiss David S

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The intracellular pathogen Francisella secretes effector proteins inside host cells; however, their functions have remained unclear. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Ledvina et al. (2018) elucidate the role of one such effector, OpiA, to be a bacterial phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase that alters phagosomal trafficking and can promote intracellular bacterial replication.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2018.07.016

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