(French) Légionellose : reprogrammation inédite des cellules hôtes à l’avantage de la bactérie Legionella pneumophila

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Legionella pneumophila Effector RomA Uniquely Modifies Host Chromatin to Repress Gene Expression and Promote Intracellular Bacterial Replication, Cell Host & Microbe, april 17, 2013.Monica Rolando (1,2), Serena Sanulli (3,4,5), Christophe Rusniok (1,2), Laura Gomez-Valero (1,2), Clement Bertholet (3,4,5), Tobias Sahr (1,2), Raphael Margueron (3,4,5) and Carmen Buchrieser (1,2) (1) Institut Pasteur, Biologie des bactéries intracellulaires, (2) CNRS UMR 3525, Paris, France, (3) Institut Curie, Unité Génétique et Biologie du Développement, (4) CNRS UMR 3215, (5) INSERM U934, Paris, France.