Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011. NIH researchers have uncovered a key step in the biochemical sequence the bacterium which causes Legionnaire’s disease uses to reproduce inside the cells it infects.
The bacterium is known to activate a cell protein to help it hide from the cell’s defenses while it reproduces. In the current study, the researchers have discovered how the bacterium switches off the protein so that its offspring can leave the cell and begin the…
