image: When human epithelial cells (red) are infected with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (green), the bacteria form microcolonies on the infected cells. Results by Katsowich et al. show how these bacteria modify their behavior upon attachment to the host cell by reorganization of their gene expression. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 17, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Katsowich at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "Host cell attachment elicits posttranscriptional regulation in infecting enteropathogenic bacteria." view more
Credit: Naama Katsowich