But in 2008, Mukherjee stumbled across a new and much faster way to cause intracellular mayhem ... they also have to dodge the cell’s immune defenses and survive a chemical environment they have ...

stimulate adaptive immune responses and enhance host survival; however, inappropriate activation of caspase 1 can lead to pathological inflammation. Pathogens have a range of mechanisms for ...

When a bacterium enters a cell’s cytoplasm, intracellular lipid droplets close in, bringing with them an arsenal of antimicrobial proteins, the research shows. “This is the first evidence that there’s ...

Daniel Capelluto and his research team have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of dysentery, manipulates molecular activity to assure ...