Posted on 12/20/2011 3:23:46 PM PST by decimon
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Bacteria are able to build camouflaged homes for themselves inside healthy cells - and cause disease - by manipulating a natural cellular process.
Purdue University biologists led 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.
Zhao-Qing Luo, the associate professor of biological sciences who headed the study, said the modification of the host protein creates a dam, blocking proteins that would be used as bricks in cellular construction from reaching their destination. The protein "bricks" are then diverted and incorporated into a bacterial structure called a vacuole that houses bacteria as it replicates within the cell. Because the vacuole contains materials natural to the cell, it goes unrecognized as a foreign structure.
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Ping
The game of survival is the same, only the scale is different.
What interest rate are they getting?
ex-Texan, bad pun *PING*.
The protein "bricks" are then diverted and incorporated into a bacterial structure called a vacuole that houses bacteria
...the world's first, and smallest, housing bubble.
And here, as elsewhere, "If I pop, you're screwed!"
Cheers!
They are not telling you how good bacteria does the same thing to combat the bad bacteria.
Purdue scientists reveal how bacteria build homes inside healthy cells by using Chinese drywall
little bitty Occupiers, huh?
They should call it the ACORN gene.
Purdue Ping
Did the realtor get 7% of the bacteria?
Thanks for the ping. This is interesting.
Even our bodies have illegal aliens.
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