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Recently a new disease-causing bacterial strain was found in the intestines of people with terrible illness. The bacteria bind to cadherin and disrupt the actin cytoskeleton locally by disrupting which intracellular molecule? g

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Answer: The action cytoskeleton structure is dynamic.

Explanation: Actin cytoskeleton is a dynamic structure necessary for cell and tissue organization, including the maintenance of epithelial barriers. The epithelial barriers are necessary to maintain barriers, the disruption of the epithelial barrier coincides with alterations of the actin cytoskeleton in several disease states. Primarily these disruptions affect the paracellular space, that is normally regulated by tight junctions. The actin cytoskeleton is a usual target of bacterial virulence factors. Bacteria secrete and inject toxins and effectors to hijack the host cell machinery, in order to manipulate the action cytoskeleton, which interferes with host-cell pathways and with a number of actin binding proteins.

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