Monkey Wrench (IMAGE)

Boston Children's Hospital

Monkey Wrench

Caption

This cartoon, entitled "Monkey Wrench," portrays how granzyme B targets and disrupts protein synthesis in bacteria. Here, bacterial protein synthesis is depicted as a processing line where granzyme B -- the group of disruptive monkeys -- shuts down essential systems in bacteria, causing catastrophe.

Credit

Artwork by Sylvie Shaffer of the Wistar Institute.

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Please use with artwork credit and source link to original article: https://vector.childrenshospital.org/2017/11/bacteria-microbial-murder-mystery/

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