MicrobiologybioRxiv
Mechanical competition triggered by innate immune signaling drives the collective extrusion of bacterially-infected epithelial cells
E. E. Bastounis, F. S. Alcade, P. Radhakrishnan…·J. A. Theriot
The paper shows that innate immune signaling triggers mechanical competition, leading to the collective extrusion of infected epithelial cells by uninfected bystanders.