Chlamydia trachomatis induces disassembly of the primary cilium to promote the intracellular infection

R Ekka, A Gutierrez, KA Johnson, M Tan… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Chlamydia trachomatis is a clinically important bacterium that infects epithelial cells of the
genitourinary and respiratory tracts and the eye. These differentiated cells are in a quiescent …

Chlamydial lytic exit from host cells is plasmid regulated

C Yang, T Starr, L Song, JH Carlson, GL Sturdevant… - MBio, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is a globally important
human pathogen. The chlamydial plasmid is an attenuating virulence factor, but the …

Chlamydial intracellular survival strategies

RJ Bastidas, CA Elwell… - Cold Spring …, 2013 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen and the
causative agent of blinding trachoma. Although Chlamydia is protected from humoral …

Comparison of Murine Cervicovaginal Infection by Chlamydial Strains: Identification of Extrusions Shed In vivo

JH Shaw, AR Behar, TA Snider, NA Allen… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Chlamydia trachomatis is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted infections
(STIs) and preventable blindness. Untreated, asymptomatic infection as well as frequent re …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in Chlamydia subversion of host cytoskeletal and membrane trafficking pathways

MA Scidmore - Microbes and infection, 2011 - Elsevier
Chlamydia species are obligate intracellular bacteria that cause sexually transmitted
disease, ocular infections and atypical pneumonia. This review highlights recent advances …

[HTML][HTML] A renewed tool kit to explore Chlamydia pathogenesis: from molecular genetics to new infection models

L Dolat, RH Valdivia - F1000Research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial pathogen and the
leading cause of preventable blindness in the developing world. C. trachomatis invades the …

Chlamydia trachomatis Induces Remodeling of the Actin Cytoskeleton during Attachment and Entry into HeLa Cells

RA Carabeo, SS Grieshaber, E Fischer… - Infection and …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
To elucidate the host cell machinery utilized by Chlamydia trachomatis to invade epithelial
cells, we examined the role of the actin cytoskeleton in the internalization of chlamydial …

Reorganization of the host cytoskeleton by the intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis

Y Kumar, RH Valdivia - Communicative & integrative biology, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular pathogens that cause a wide range of human
diseases. Chlamydia resides in a membrane bound vacuole (“inclusion”) that expands to …

[PDF][PDF] Chlamydia trachomatis

N Sturd, EA Rucks - Trends in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Chlamydia trachomatis causes the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease
worldwide. It is also the causative agent of blinding trachoma, which is the leading cause of …

Chlamydia trachomatis infection prevents front–rear polarity of migrating HeLa cells

J Heymann, A Rejman Lipinski, B Bauer… - Cellular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacterial pathogens that cause trachoma, sexually
transmitted diseases and respiratory infections in humans. Fragmentation of the host cell G …