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Volume 21, Number 4
15 February 2002

pp 483-855

Cover. The pseudo-coloured scanning electron micrograph shows the intimate contact between Neisseria gonorrhoeae (red), expressing the Opa57 adhesin, and pseudopodia extending from the surface of a HeLa cell (green) that expresses the human Opa receptor CEACAM1. Cultured cells were infected for 30 min before fixation. Volker Brinkmann, who captured this image on a LEO 1550 scanning EM, is at the microscopy core facility of the Max-Planck Institute of Infection Biology in Berlin. Oliver Billker has joined the institute as an EMBO fellow and is interested in the molecular mechanisms of host--pathogen interactions. Thomas F.Meyer is the director of the molecular biology department. For further details, see Billker et al., pages 560--571.

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