Identification of a peptide-pheromone that enhances Listeria monocytogenes escape from host cell vacuoles.

Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen that invades mammalian cells and escapes from membrane-bound vacuoles to replicate within the host cell cytosol. Gene products required for intracellular bacterial growth and bacterial spread to adjacent cells are...

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Main Authors: Bobbi Xayarath, Francis Alonzo, Nancy E Freitag
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-03-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4379056?pdf=render