University of Freiburg pharmacologists and toxicologists discovered how the toxins of dangerous bacteria enter the interiors of cells

Bacterial toxins usually exert their full deadly effect in the host cell’s interior. The toxins overcome the cell membrane by binding to a surface receptor, which conveys them into the cell’s interior. © Panagiotis Papatheodorou

Bacterial toxins usually exert their full deadly effect in the host cell’s interior. The toxins overcome the cell membrane by binding to a surface receptor, which conveys them into the cell’s interior. © Panagiotis Papatheodorou

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