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Saturday, 9 August 2014

Listeria and Shigella Species.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria

 Several Listeria and Shigella species move inside host cells by usurping the cytoskeleton, which is normally used to move organelles inside the cell. By promoting actin polymerization at one pole of their cells, they can form a kind of tail that pushes them through the host cell's cytoplasm.

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