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SUBMITTER: Van Engelenburg SB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2862489 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van Engelenburg Schuyler B SB Palmer Amy E AE
Nature methods 20100314 4
The type-III secretion system (T3SS) enables gram-negative bacteria to inject effector proteins into eukaryotic host cells. Upon entry, T3SS effectors work cooperatively to reprogram host cells, enabling bacterial survival. Progress in understanding when and where effectors localize in host cells has been hindered by a dearth of tools to study these proteins in the native cellular environment. We report a method to label and track T3SS effectors during infection using a split-GFP system. We demo ...[more]