TY - JOUR
KW - Schwann Cells
KW - leprosy
AU - Wegner M
AB - For intracellular parasites that strongly prefer infecting a particular cell type, systemic spread is challenging. Masaki et al. show that the leprosy bacterium cleverly expands its repertoire by driving dedifferentiation of Schwann cells, their preferred host, to cells with stem cell properties that can subsequently redifferentiate into mesodermal lineages.
BT - Cell
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23332743?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2013 Jan 17
DO - 10.1016/j.cell.2013.01.001
IS - 1-2
J2 - Cell
LA - eng
N2 - For intracellular parasites that strongly prefer infecting a particular cell type, systemic spread is challenging. Masaki et al. show that the leprosy bacterium cleverly expands its repertoire by driving dedifferentiation of Schwann cells, their preferred host, to cells with stem cell properties that can subsequently redifferentiate into mesodermal lineages.
PY - 2013
SP - 15
EP - 6
T2 - Cell
TI - Mighty bugs: leprosy bacteria turn schwann cells into stem cells.
VL - 152
SN - 1097-4172
ER -