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New Way to Block the Chlamydia Infections Identified
Chlamydia infections are symptomless at the beginning, but can become chronic in women and lead to pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility, as it infects cells in the uterus and fallopian tubes. It's generally harmless to men.
A virulence factor that Chlamydia produces, called CPAF, emerged as a promising target to shut down because it plays an important role in protecting the bacteria within hiding places (vacuoles) in human cells. CPAF also prevents the human cell from committing suicide when it senses that it has been invaded by a pathogen (a common self-defense mechanism), giving Chlamydia bacteria an extended chance to multiply and stay hidden.
Microbiologists and genetics experts led by Raphael Valdivia, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Duke Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, completed the work that narrowed down the search to an enzyme that Chlamydia produces, a protease called CPAF.
The Duke chemists, led by Dewey McCafferty, Ph.D., a professor in the Duke Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, designed a molecule that could block the CPAF activity inside of human cells.
They found that when CPAF was blocked over time by their designed molecule, the protective home that the bacteria make for themselves within the infected cells degraded, and CPAF no longer could degrade the proteins in the cell that would normally mount an immune response to the infection.
When CPAF is inhibited, the infected human cells effectively "commit suicide," Valdivia said.
"When the infected human cell dies, so does Chlamydia, and this ends the infection," Valdivia added.
The study has been published in the Cell Host and Microbe.
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08/23/2011
I like that part that chlamydia trachomatis is generaly harmless for men.well i don t think so.i am man after two weeks infected by chlamydia trachomatis i cannot urine properly,paim all over the body, crackling bones nothing is working on this.don t write such a things that for men it s generally harmless. It depends on the immunity system of hosted organism.hla b27 people whould have serious problems.now i am going to try wheldon protocol to get rid of death parts of chlamydia stimulating immunity system.and last words..my all special immunity test are extremly good,no sedimentation,no crp,no possitivity of chlamydia but reality is pain pain pain.if this is generaly harmless for men...i am santa claus..
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