Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli EspF is targeted to mitochondria and is required to initiate the mitochondrial death pathway

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a causative agent of infant diarrhoea in developing countries. The EspF protein is the product of the espF gene found on the locus of enterocyte effacement, the key pathogenicity island carried by EPEC and enterohemorrhagic E. coli. EspF is injected from a... View More