The authors are in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland. gisou.vandergoot@medecine.unige.ch
Certain pathogens and bacterial toxins exhibit exquisite host specificity, the determinants of which often remain mysterious. A recent report shows that the human specificity of the pore-forming toxin intermedilysin (ILY), a member of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysins (CDCs), is due to its specific interaction with the human cluster of differentiation protein CD59.
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