#hostpathogen — Public Fediverse posts
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'Flagella-driven motility is essential for the entry of H. pylori into the mucus layer and for maintaining a swimming reservoir in the mucus (Fig. 3). H. pylori has a unipolar bundle of rotating sheathed flagella, with filaments composed of two flagellin proteins that evade activating the innate immune system via TLR5 due to specific adaptation of their amino acid sequences'
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"Our findings underscore the importance of cell death in defense against intracellular bacterial pathogens and provide an example of how layered and hierarchical immune pathways can provide robust defense against pathogens that have evolved a broad arsenal of virulence factors."
#Shigella #HostPathogen #CellDeath #Apoptosis #InnateImmunity #Pathogen #Microbiology #Immunology
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How to sustain energy-costly #proteinsynthesis under #nutrient-fluctuating conditions?
Weiwei Han, Eduardo Groisman and coworkers show that #bacterial #elongation factor paralog EF-G2 mediates slow #translation without #GTPase activity/#GTP hydrolysis to promote #Bacteroides gut colonization
#microbiology #hostpathogen
https://www.embopress.org/doi/10.15252/embj.2022112372