Monday, October 17, 2011

Cartooning Microbio


The shigella bacteria wants to infiltrate the human epithelial cell of the large intestine. By injecting it with the type 3 secretion system through a syringe-like appendage it will induce the human cell to phagocytize it. The peculiar thing about this transactoin is that this particular intestinal cell lacks the ability of phagocytosis (notice lack of mouth before injection.)