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Bacterial pathogenesis: A sand grain in antigen processing

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An effector protein secreted by the intracellular human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis impairs antigen processing in targeted phagocytic cells, resulting in evasion from immune surveillance by a dedicated adaptive immune response.

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Figure 1: Impairment of M. tuberculosis antigen presentation by EsxGH.

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  1. Department of Tuberculosis and Infection Biology, Olivier Neyrolles is at the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of Toulouse, Toulouse 31000, France.,

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Neyrolles, O. Bacterial pathogenesis: A sand grain in antigen processing. Nat Microbiol 2, 16234 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.234

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