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Volume 155, Number 22 (May 29, 1999)

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Diet of TACOs keep bacteria alive

A protein called TACO helps bacteria survive inside immune cells.

References:

Ferrari, G., et al. 1999. A coat protein on phagosomes involved in the intracellular survival of mycobacteria. Cell 97(May 14):435.

Sources:

Giorgio Ferrari
Basel Institute for Immunology
Grenzacherstrasse 487
CH-4005 Basel
Switzerland

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 22, May 29, 1999, p. 351. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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