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A Listeria escape trick

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Pathogens have many ways of subverting their hosts' molecular machinery. A striking example of such a ploy comes to light from investigations of the species of bacterium that causes listeriosis.

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Figure 1: Regulation of the Listeria monocytogenes virulence factor listeriolysin O (LLO) in the phagosome of a macrophage.

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  1. Canada. John H. Brumell is also in the Department of Molecular Genetics, Grace Y. Lam and John H. Brumell are at the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, and the Cell Biology Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, University of Toronto. g.lam@utoronto.ca john.brumell@sickkids.ca,

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Lam, G., Brumell, J. A Listeria escape trick. Nature 455, 1186–1187 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4551186a

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