Researchers had also described the bacteria quickly spreading among neighboring cells. But Portnoy ... that after breaking out of the vacuole, Listeria managed, somehow, to construct its own tail-like ...

Some of the best studied examples of bacterial manipulation are shown below. Listeria gets its host to build it an actin tail Some intracellular bacteria use the host cell’s actin supplies to build ...

Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that causes listeriosis ... This radical transformation is due to the loss of its cell ...