Cancer Institute A national cancer institute
designated cancer center

Lucy Shapiro

Publication Details

  • Delivering the payload. Bacterial pathogenesis.

    Stephens C, Shapiro L. Curr Biol. 1996; 6 (8): 927-30

    A specialized protein secretion pathway is used by some Gram-negative bacterial pathogens for delivery of virulence factors directly into mammalian host cells. This pathway is parallel to, and probably evolved from, a system used for construction of the bacterial flagellum.

    PubMedID: 8805313

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