Host-pathogen crosstalking: the mastery of taking the helm of the host.
How can pathogen proteins functionally hijack their hosts? In this issue of Structure, Aitio et al. reveal that the process involves coordinated intrinsic disorder in a short pathogen sequence that elegantly commandeers the tightly regulated cytoskeletal signaling in the host.
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical School, University of Ioannina, 45110, Ioannina, Greece.
Alexandra
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Koutsotoli
Andreas G
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Tzakos