01 April 2025
Bacterial Block
Cells 'digest' excess in their own endoplasmic reticulum (the organelle that 'builds' proteins) and faulty proteins by autophagy (self-eating). Here researchers show that a type of Salmonella inhibits autophagy by blocking a cell protein called FAM134B and so increasing the bacterial infection. FAM134B therefore plays a role in immunity.
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- Image from work by Damián Gatica and Reham M. Alsaadi, and colleagues
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Nature Communications, March 2025
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