Bacteria that cause diseases, so-called pathogens, develop various strategies to exploit human cells as hosts to their own advantage. A team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), together with medical professionals and experts for structure determination and imaging, has uncovered the attack strategies employed by the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae (for short: C. pneumoniae). Bacteria that cause diseases, so-called pathogens, develop various strategies to exploit human cells as hosts to their own advantage. A team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), together with medical professionals and experts for structure determination and imaging, has uncovered the attack strategies employed by the bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae (for short: C. pneumoniae). Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
How Chlamydia pneumoniae bacteria use molecular mimicry to manipulate the host cell
