Maria Letizia Di Martino
Researcher at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology; Infection and Immunity; Mikael Sellin
- E-mail:
- ml.dimartino@imbim.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 582
751 23 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-9491-4000
Short presentation
I am a Senior Researcher at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology. My research combines bacterial genetics, molecular microbiology and intestinal organoid models to explore host-pathogen interactions.

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for A two-step activation mechanism enables mast cells to differentiate their response between extracellular and invasive enterobacterial infection
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Part of Cell Reports, 2024
Part of Chemical Science, p. 5291-5301, 2023
- DOI for Chemoselective bicyclobutane-based mass spectrometric detection of biological thiols uncovers human and bacterial metabolites
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2022
- DOI for The VirF(21):VirF(30) protein ratio is affected by temperature and impacts Shigella flexneri host cell invasion
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Part of Molecular Microbiology, p. 1156-1172, 2022
- DOI for A motile doublet form of Salmonella Typhimurium diversifies target search behavior at the epithelial surface
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for A two-step activation mechanism enables mast cells to differentiate their response between extracellular and invasive enterobacterial infection
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Part of Cell Reports, 2024
Part of Chemical Science, p. 5291-5301, 2023
- DOI for Chemoselective bicyclobutane-based mass spectrometric detection of biological thiols uncovers human and bacterial metabolites
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Part of FEMS Microbiology Letters, 2022
- DOI for The VirF(21):VirF(30) protein ratio is affected by temperature and impacts Shigella flexneri host cell invasion
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Part of Molecular Microbiology, p. 1156-1172, 2022
- DOI for A motile doublet form of Salmonella Typhimurium diversifies target search behavior at the epithelial surface
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Part of mBio, 2021
- DOI for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Exploits Cycling through Epithelial Cells To Colonize Human and Murine Enteroids
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Bacterial detection by NAIP/NLRC4 elicits prompt contractions of intestinal epithelial cell layers
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
- DOI for Bacterial detection by NAIP/NLRC4 elicits prompt contractions of intestinal epithelial cell layers
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Part of Mucosal Immunology, p. 615-629, 2021
- DOI for Epithelium-autonomous NAIP/NLRC4 prevents TNF-driven inflammatory destruction of the gut epithelial barrier in Salmonella-infected mice
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Salmonella Typhimurium discreet-invasion of the murine gut absorptive epithelium
Part of PLoS Pathogens, 2020
- DOI for Salmonella Typhimurium discreet-invasion of the murine gut absorptive epithelium
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Part of mBio, 2019
- DOI for Barcoded Consortium Infections Resolve Cell Type-Dependent Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Entry Mechanisms
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Articles, review/survey
The Intriguing Evolutionary Journey of Enteroinvasive E-coli (EIEC) toward Pathogenicity
Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017
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