Chlamydia trachomatis restricts signaling through NOD2 until late in the pathogen's developmental cycle.

Pathogenic chlamydial species restrict their peptidoglycan (PG) to the division septum of their replicative forms. PG is a microbe-associated molecular pattern, and two of its major pattern recognition receptors in human cells are nucleotide-binding…

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