{"id":686350,"date":"2021-04-07T07:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686350"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:45:31","slug":"a-bacterial-toxin-that-acts-as-a-mediator-rather-than-a-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686350","title":{"rendered":"A bacterial toxin that acts as a mediator rather than a killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, bacterial toxins have been seen as killers of target cells. But is there more than meets the eye? Ume\u00e5 University Professor Teresa Frisan and her team have discovered that toxin-host interactions are more complex and that bacterial toxins can act as modulators of the host immune response to avoid bacteria detection and long-term infection. The study has been published in the journal Cell Reports.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-bacterial-toxin-killer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A bacterial toxin that acts as a mediator rather than a killer<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, bacterial toxins have been seen as killers of target cells. But is there more than meets the eye? Ume\u00e5 University Professor Teresa Frisan and her team have discovered that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}