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Sunday, December 25, 2011

ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


How bacteria build homes inside healthy cells

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:39 AM PST

Bacteria are able to build camouflaged homes for themselves inside healthy cells. A team that revealed how a pair of proteins from the bacteria Legionella pneumophila, which causes Legionnaires disease, alters a host protein in order to divert raw materials within the cell for use in building and disguising a large structure that houses the bacteria as it replicates.

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