The Great Escape

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The paper

L.A. Knodler et al., “Dissemination of invasive Salmonella via bacterial-induced extrusion of mucosal epithelia.” PNAS, 107:17733-38, 2010. Free F1000 Evaluation

The finding

When the Salmonella bacterium infects eukaryotic cells, it becomes encased in membrane-bound vacuoles. How it escapes from these vacuoles and infects other cells was a mystery until now. Olivia Steele-Mortimer and colleagues at NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Hamilton, Montana, found that these bacteria don’t all behave the same way, even when infecting the same cell—and that very few actually escape the vacuoles at all.

The cytosol

First author Leigh Knodler noticed “balls of cells” sitting on top of the monolayer of cultured Salmonella-infected gut epithelial cells in electron micrographs. These epithelial cells had been extruded from ...

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