VaccineNewsDaily.com
06/01/2010
Scientists at the University of California – Berkeley have found that molecular pumps in Listeria bacteria that expel antibiotics, which make the bug harder to kill with standard drugs, also expel small signaling molecules that stimulate a strong immune response in cells that they infect.
The discovery was reported in the May 28 issues of the journal Science and was funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
This finding of a new and highly immunogenic molecule being pumped out of bacteria, PhysOrg.com reports, suggests the possibility that vaccines using live or disabled bacteria to activate the immune system may be improved.
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