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Finding the keys to the placental barrier

Nature Reviews Microbiology volume 6, page 798 (2008)Cite this article

Two bacterial proteins, InlA and InlB, have essential and interdependent roles in enabling Listeria monocytogenes to cross the placental barrier and cause fetoplacental listeriosis, Oliver Disson and colleagues report in Nature.

L. monocytogenes specifically targets the placenta in vivo, if and only if both InlA and InlB pathways are functional.

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ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER

  1. Disson, O. et al. Conjugated action of two species-specific invasion proteins for fetoplacental listeriosis. Nature 17 Sep 2008 (doi:10.1038/nature07303)

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  1. Hamon, M., Bierne, H. & Cossart, P. Listeria monocytogenes: a multifaceted model. Nature Rev. Microbiol. 4, 423–434 (2006)

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  1. Asher Mullard
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Mullard, A. Finding the keys to the placental barrier. Nat Rev Microbiol 6, 798 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro2025

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