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- Title
Yersinia pestis: mechanisms of entry into and resistance to the host cell.
- Authors
Yuehua Ke; Zeliang Chen; Ruifu Yang
- Abstract
During infection, Yersinia, a facultative intracellular bacterial species, exhibits the ability to first invade host cells and then counteract phagocytosis by the host cells. During these two distinct stages, invasion or antiphagocytic factors assist bacteria in manipulating host cells to accomplish each of these functions; however, the mechanism through which Yersinia regulates these functions during each step remains unclear. Here, we discuss those factors that seem to function reversely and give some hypothesis about how bacteria switch between the two distinct status.
- Subjects
YERSINIA pestis; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GRAM-negative bacteria; BACTERIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS
- Publication
Frontiers in Cellular & Infection Microbiology, 2013, Vol 3, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
2235-2988
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fcimb.2013.00106