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Samantha Gruenheid

Researcher at McGill University

Publications -  90
Citations -  6292

Samantha Gruenheid is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citrobacter rodentium & Virulence. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 80 publications receiving 5760 citations. Previous affiliations of Samantha Gruenheid include National Autonomous University of Mexico & University of British Columbia.

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Dissecting virulence: Systematic and functional analyses of a pathogenicity island

TL;DR: This work systematically mutagenized all 41 CR LEE genes and functionally characterized these mutants in vitro and in a murine infection model, identifying 33 virulence factors, including two virulence regulators and a hierarchical switch for type III secretion.
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Natural Resistance to Infection with Intracellular Pathogens: The Nramp1 Protein Is Recruited to the Membrane of the Phagosome

TL;DR: The targeting of Nramp1 from endocytic vesicles to the phagosomal membrane supports the hypothesis that Nramps1 controls the replication of intracellular parasites by altering the intravacuolar environment of the microbe-containing phagosome.
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Cellular and subcellular localization of the Nramp2 iron transporter in the intestinal brush border and regulation by dietary iron.

TL;DR: Immunoblotting experiments with membrane fractions from intact organs and immunostaining studies of tissue sections suggest that Nramp2 is indeed responsible for transferrin-independent iron uptake in the duodenum and overall mechanisms of iron acquisition by the body are discussed.
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Enteropathogenic E. coli Tir binds Nck to initiate actin pedestal formation in host cells.

TL;DR: It is shown that tyrosine 474 of Tir directly binds the host-cell adaptor protein Nck, and that Nck is required for the recruitment of both neural Wiskott–Aldrich-syndrome protein (N-WASP) and the actin-related protein (Arp)2/3 complex to the EPEC pedestal, directly linking Tir to the cytoskeleton.
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Intestinal infection triggers Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms in Pink1 −/− mice

TL;DR: Intestinal infection with Gram-negative bacteria in Pink1 −/− mice engages mitochondrial antigen presentation and autoimmune mechanisms that elicit the establishment of cytotoxic mitochondria-specific CD8+ T cells in the periphery and in the brain, supporting the idea that PINK1 is a repressor of the immune system.