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Cracking Listeria's password
Email: Tudor Toma - ttoma@mail.dntis.ro News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010608-03
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Listeria monocytogenes is responsible for a serious food-borne bacterial disease that can be fatal in newborns and the elderly and can induce late-term miscarriages in pregnant women. Despite it's clinical importance the mechanisms by which bacteria cross the intestinal barrier remains unknown. In June 1 Science, Marc Lecuit and colleagues from Institut Pasteur, Paris show that the L. monocytogenes surface protein internalin is a crucial factor in the bacterial penetration of the intestinal epithelial barrier.
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