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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  [[log in to unmask]]
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