Bacterial Detection by NAIP/NLRC4 Elicits Prompt Contractions of Intestinal Epithelial Cell Layers

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Researchers showed that untransformed intestinal epithelial cell layers initiate immediate focal contractions, affecting hundreds to thousands of epithelial cells, in response to bacterial infection.
[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]
Ventayol, P. S., Geiser, P., Martino, M. L. D., Florbrant, A., Fattinger, S. A., Walder, N., Sima, E., Shao, F., Gekara, N. O., Sundbom, M., Hardt, W.-D., Webb, D.-L., Hellström, P. M., Eriksson, J., & Sellin, M. E. (2021). Bacterial detection by NAIP/NLRC4 elicits prompt contractions of intestinal epithelial cell layers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(16). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2013963118 Cite
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