March 13, 2020
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Regulation of metabolic pathways: lessons from an intracellular bacterium
Bacteria that grow inside cells depend on their host cell for access to nutrients. Scientists from the Cellular Biology of Microbial Infection Unit at the Institut Pasteur have discovered that these bacteria exploit the regulation pathways in the host to adapt its metabolism to their own needs and facilitate their proliferation.