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Listeriolysin O (LLO, hly ) [ 7, 8, 9, 10], and two phospholipases (PlcA, PlcB) [ 11, 12, 13], work in concert to disrupt the membrane of the phagocytic vacuole, allowing the bacterium to escape into the cytoplasm.
Listeria monocytogenes is a ubiquitous, Gram-positive, soil bacterium and facultative intracellular pathogen, which on occasion causes severe food-borne disease in newborns, pregnant women or immunocompromised individuals.
Microbiologists laughed and laughed: in the first place, nobody but the official committee on nomenclature is authorized to change a bacterial name; second, Salmonella is recognized internationally, not just in the U.S.; and third, the bacterium was named not after the fish but after an American bacteriologist, Daniel E. Salmon (1850-1914).
Strikingly, the nematode protein has greatest similarity (56% amino-acid identity) to GSI from the rhizobial bacterium, Mesorhizobium loti , including conservation of Tyr397.
However, the CyaB adenylyl cyclase, which was identified in the bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila is unrelated to any of these above superfamilies of enzymes [ 16 ] . Though close relatives of this enzyme exist in some bacteria, like