Bacteria disarm host-defence proteins

John D. MacMicking ()
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John D. MacMicking: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Systems Biology Institute, Yale University

Nature, 2017, vol. 551, issue 7680, 303-304

Abstract: Infection with Shigella flexneri bacteria is a major cause of infant death. It emerges that S. flexneri evades intracellular defences by releasing a protein that triggers the destruction of members of a key family of host enzymes. See Letter p.378

Date: 2017
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