ActuAtor

ActuAtor

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore,

Category

Vaccination monitoring

Country

United States of America

Description

Is one that we generated using ActA, a protein from the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. When the bacterium infects a mammalian host cell, ActA hijacks the host’s machinery to trigger actin polymerization on the microbe’s surface. This generates force that pushes the bacterium through the cytoplasm.