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Study shows how foodborne pathogen infects a human intestinal cell – News-Medical.net
As soon as the foodborne pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus infects a human intestinal cell, the bacteria are already planning their escape.
As soon as the foodborne pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus infects a human intestinal cell, the bacteria are already planning their escape. After all, once it is in and multiplies, the bacterium must find a way out to infect new cells.
Now, UT Southwestern scientists have discovered the surprising route that V. parahaemolyticus takes during this exit – or egress – from cells. The bacteria, they report in the journal eLife, gradually modify cholesterol found in a cell’s plasma membrane, eventuall…
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