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. 2019 Oct 17;179(3):584-586.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.09.024.

An Affair to Remember: How an Endosymbiont Partners with Its Host to Build a Cell Envelope

Atanas D Radkov  1 , Seemay Chou  2
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An Affair to Remember: How an Endosymbiont Partners with Its Host to Build a Cell Envelope

Atanas D Radkov et al. Cell. .
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Studying endosymbionts gives us insight into early cellular mechanisms that led to the emergence of eukaryotic organelles. In this issue of Cell, Bublitz et al. (2019) report on how a nested bacterial endosymbiont of mealybugs builds its cell wall peptidoglycan through a biosynthetic pathway that is dependent on transported host enzymes.

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    Bublitz DC, Chadwick GL, Magyar JS, Sandoz KM, Brooks DM, Mesnage S, Ladinsky MS, Garber AI, Bjorkman PJ, Orphan VJ, McCutcheon JP. Bublitz DC, et al. Cell. 2019 Oct 17;179(3):703-712.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.054. Epub 2019 Oct 3. Cell. 2019. PMID: 31587897 Free PMC article.

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