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dictyNews Volume 33 Number 13
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Electronic Edition
Volume 33, number 13
November 20, 2009
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Recent Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions from Dictyostelium
Margaret Clarke
Program in Genetic Models of Disease, Oklahoma Medical Research
Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Cell. Microbiol., in press
To protect themselves from predation by amoebae and protozoa in the natural
environment, some bacteria evolved means of escaping killing. The same
mechanisms allow survival in mammalian phagocytes, producing opportunistic
human pathogens. The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a powerful
system for analysis of conserved host-pathogen interactions. This report
reviews recent insights gained for several bacterial pathogens using Dictyostelium
as host.
Submitted by Margaret Clarke [clarkem@omrf.ouhsc.edu]
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