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SUBMITTER: Kim BW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726209 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Bong-Woo BW Lee Jae-Seon JS Ko Young-Gyu YG
BMB reports 20190801 8
Using tunneling nanotubes (TNTs), various pathological molecules and viruses disseminate to adjacent cells intercellularly. Here, we show that the intracellular invasion of Mycoplasma hyorhinis induces the formation of actin- and tubulin-based TNTs in various mammalian cell lines. M. hyorhinis was found in TNTs generated by M. hyorhinis infection in NIH3T3 cells. Because mycoplasma-free recipient cells received mycoplasmas from M. hyorhinis-infected donor cells in a mixed co-culture system and n ...[more]