Pathogenic Rickettsia spp. as emerging models for bacterial biology

B Sit, RL Lamason - Journal of Bacteriology, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Our understanding of free-living bacterial models like Escherichia coli far outpaces that of
obligate intracellular bacteria, which cannot be cultured axenically. All obligate intracellular …

A conserved interaction between the effector Sca4 and host endocytic machinery suggests additional roles for Sca4 during rickettsial infection

CJ Vondrak, B Sit, C Suwanbongkot, KR Macaluso… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Intracellular bacterial pathogens deploy secreted effector proteins that manipulate diverse
host machinery and pathways to promote infection. Although many effectors carry out a …