Microbiology: And Amoebophilus Invented the Machine Gun!

E. Cascales (1)

1 LISM - Laboratoire d'ingénierie des systèmes macromoléculaires

Bacterial contractile injection systems are fascinating particles that use a spring-like mechanism to inject an effector-loaded needle into target cells. A recent study shows that the intracellular bacterium Amoebophilus asiaticus uses arrays of contractile structures to escape from the amoeba phagosome.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Biochimie, Biologie Moléculaire; Biochimie [q-bio.BM]; Biologie moléculaire; Biophysique; Biologie structurale [q-bio.BM]; Organisation et fonctions cellulaires [q-bio.SC]; Bactériologie

E. Cascales. Microbiology: And Amoebophilus Invented the Machine Gun!. Current Biology - CB, 2017, 27 (21), pp.R1170 - R1173. ⟨10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.025⟩. ⟨hal-01780745⟩