Journal
CELL COMMUNICATION AND SIGNALING
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1478-811X-11-90
Keywords
Chlamydia; Invasion; Inclusion; Type III secretion; Tarp; Inc; Signaling; Trafficking
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- DFG [SPP1580]
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
- University of Wuerzburg
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Modulation of host cell signaling and cellular functions is key to intracellular survival of pathogenic bacteria. Intracellular growth has several advantages e.g. escape from the humoral immune response and access to a stable nutrient rich environment. Growth in such a preferred niche comes at the price of an ongoing competition between the bacteria and the host as well as other microbes that compete for the very same host resources. This requires specialization and constant evolution of dedicated systems for adhesion, invasion and accommodation. Interestingly, obligate intracellular bacteria of the order Chlamydiales have evolved an impressive degree of control over several important host cell functions. In this review we summarize how Chlamydia controls its host cell with a special focus on signal transduction and cellular modulation.
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