Sonia Mondino

This study reveals how core-sheath coupling in Leptospira flagella controls curvature and motility, showing its importance in viscous environments and infection.

This study identifies L. pneumophila's LpDot1 protein as a bacterial effector that modifies SFPQ, disrupting paraspeckle organization and host splicing, leading to alternative splice variants of infection-related genes.

The paper identifies over 16,000 secreted proteins in Legionella species, revealing their ability to acquire eukaryotic-like genes for intracellular replication in human cells.