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 ...

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 ...

In the future, further in-depth analysis of how bacteria invade tumor cells, how intracellular bacteria are integrated into the host cell system, and how bacteria-containing tumor cells interact ...

A bacterial pathogen that typically multiplies outside of host cells can enter and induce the destruction of cells called macrophages, according to a study published June 20 in the open-access ...