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Science 10 November 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5801, pp. 931 - 932
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135742
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Bacterial Bushwacking Through a Microtubule Jungle

Jean-Pierre Gorvel

The cellular cytoskeleton represents an obstacle to the movement of bacteria inside an infected cell. Certain bacteria have developed virulence factors to remove or sabotage it.

The author is at Centre d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRSUniversité de la Méditerranée Parc Scientifique de Luminy Case 906, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France.

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