Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered a new mechanism that helps stomach bug cause illness. iVibrio parahaemolyticus/i bacteria, which cause gastroenteritis, inject proteins called effectors into host cells. One of those effectors, VopQ, almost immediately starts to disrupt the important process of autophagy via a novel channel-forming mechanism, the scientists report in the investigation available online at the iProceedings ...
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