Claude Frehel

TL;DR: Two types of experiment suggest that viable M. avium can impair phagosome-pinosome fusions, suggesting that some of the live bacteria are resistant to the hydrolytic enzymes of the phagolysosomal environment.

TL;DR: Results clearly show that both EmbA and EmbB proteins are involved in the formation of the proper terminal hexaarabinofuranoside motif in AG, thus paving the way for future studies to identify the complete array of arabinosyltransferases involved inThe synthesis of mycobacterial cell wall arabinan.

TL;DR: The kinetics of acquisition of the different late endosome/lysosome 'markers' by the phagosomes were similar to those measured after infection with metacyclics, which suggests that promastigote phagocytosis mainly occurs in a polarized manner, with the cell body entering the macrophages first.

TL;DR: A new locus is described, spoIIQ, which is transcribed in the forespore and which encodes a membrane‐bound protein required at a late stage of engulfment in Bacillus subtilis cells.

TL;DR: It is shown that growth of this bacterium is restricted in marrow M phi s from resistant mice, and the mechanism by which the Bcg gene exerts control over the phagolysosomal fusion is discussed.