Lipid shape and tuberculosis

The team of Matthieu Chavent has elucidated the role of a specific class of lipids, phthiocerol dimycocerosate (DIM), in phagocytosis of macrophages such as mycobacterium tuberculosis. Read all about it in: Augenstreich et al., The conical shape of DIM lipids promotes Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of macrophages, PNAS 2019, in press.