One possible explanation for this result is that loss of a particular exoenzyme may reduce the bacterial invasive ability, permitting the host to mount a better defense.
The cooperation may actually have evolved into an immune surveillance mechanism that permits the host to respond more effectively and rapidly to internal and external dangers.
The reductive evolution and specialisation of endosymbionts to mitochondria resulted in an extreme genomic asymmetry, in which the residual mitochondrial genomes enabled the expansion of bioenergetic membranes over several orders of magnitude, overcoming the energetic constraints on prokaryotic genome size, and permitting the host cell genome to expand (in principle) over 200,000-fold.
In contrast, inflammatory neutrophils that remain noninfected, or that are infected by certain other microbes, for example, T. gondii, die in a manner that is evaluated by the DC as immunogenic, or at least nontolerogenic, permitting the host to mount an adaptive, antimicrobial response.
Identifying pathogen ESPs will permit the identification of host receptors and host cells with which these proteins interact, improving our understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in pathogenesis.
The fact that this extract permitted the surviving host to harbor a substantial bacterial load in the gut following infection by S. aureus and P. aeruginosa indicates that this extract might have attenuated a bacterial virulence factor or pathway which is common among pathogens.
These signals also permit the rhizobia to infect the host plant via tubular structures called infection threads.
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Superantigens are implicated in several diseases including toxic shock syndrome, scarlet fever and food poisoning; and their function appears primarily to debilitate the host sufficiently to permit the causation of disease.
