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. 1996 Aug 1;6(8):927-30.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(02)00628-0.

Delivering the payload. Bacterial pathogenesis

C Stephens  1 , L Shapiro
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Delivering the payload. Bacterial pathogenesis

C Stephens et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

A specialized protein secretion pathway is used by some Gram-negative bacterial pathogens for delivery of virulence factors directly into mammalian host cells. This pathway is parallel to, and probably evolved from, a system used for construction of the bacterial flagellum.

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