Apoptosis in the interaction of the intracellular bacterium Chlamydia Pneumoniae and the infected host cell

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Georg Häcker
• Subject Area: Parasitology and Biology of Tropical Infectious Disease Pathogens
• Term: from 2000 to 2008
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5261048

• Final Report Year: 2007

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• (2006). Characterization of Host Cell Death Induced by Chlamydia trachomatis. Infect Immun 74, 6057-6066
  Ying, S., Fischer, S. F., Pettengill, M., Conte, D., Paschen, S. A., Ojcius, D. M., and Hacker, G.
  
• (2006). Recruitment of BAD by the Chlamydia trachomatis vacuole correlates with host-cell survival. PLoS Pathog 2, e45
  Verbeke, P., Welter-Stahl, L., Ying, S., Hansen, J., Hacker, G., Darville, T., and Ojcius, D. M.
  
• Chlamydia trachomatis can protect host cells against apoptosis in the absence of cellular Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins and Mel-1. Microbes Infect.
  Ying, S., Christian, J. A., Paschen, S. A. and Hacker, G.
  
• Premature apoptosis of Chlamydia-infected cells disrupts chlamydial development
  Ying, S., Pettengill, M., Latham, E. R., Walch, A., Ojcius, D. M. and Hacker, G.