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SUBMITTER: Belyi Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1636560 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20061026 45
Legionella pneumophila, the causal agent of Legionnaires' disease, is an intracellular parasite and invades and proliferates within different eukaryotic cells, including human alveolar macrophages. After several 100-fold multiplication within host cells, the pathogens are released for new invasion by induction of apoptosis or necrosis. Here we report that L. pneumophila produces a glucosyltransferase, which selectively modifies an approximately 50-kDa mammalian protein by using UDP-glucose as a ...[more]