Various microbes, including several human pathogens, hijack the cell’s skeleton, membranes, and protein-making machinery to make themselves at home. Intracellular bacteria use various tricks to ...

But in 2008, Mukherjee stumbled across a new and much faster way to cause intracellular mayhem. Studying bacterial interactions with actin is still throwing up new mysteries. These microbes all enjoy ...

Extracellular bacteria are free-living organisms, whereas facultative intracellular bacteria replicate either inside eukaryotic host cells or in an environmental niche. Genetic tools for the ...

The research team shows for the first time that intracellular bacteria known as symbionts protect their host against viruses. Amoebae are protists, i.e. single-celled microorganisms with a cell ...

Cells have developed a range of defences against intracellular bacteria, Professor Bedoui said. "The rapid death of infected cells is an important protective strategy against intracellular bacteria.

Pathogenic bacteria are commonly classified as intracellular or extracellular pathogens. Intracellular bacterial pathogens can replicate within host cells, including macrophages, which ingest and ...

The research team shows for the first time that intracellular bacteria known as symbionts protect their host against viruses. Amoebae are protists, i.e. single-celled microorganisms with a cell ...

Some prophages can occupy up to 20% of the host bacterial chromosome and comprise the majority of strain-specific DNA in genome comparisons. Facultative intracellular bacteria have a four-fold ...

The study results showed that intracellular bacteria act to reorganize the actin cytoskeleton in circulating tumor cells (CTCs), and this promotes CTC survival by enhancing resistance to ...

And while scientists already knew that cells could attack bacterial membranes, the new study uncovers what appears to be the first example of a protective intracellular protein with detergent-like ...

Carmen Buchrieser, head of the Biology of the intracellular bacteria research unit at the Institut Pasteur and researcher at CNRS, says, "This is an important discovery as our results showcase a ...

Researchers at UC Davis have discovered a signaling mechanism that allows bacteria like Salmonella to evade destruction by the host’s immune system. Intracellular bacteria like Salmonella can infect ...