B. thuringiensis is a spore forming bacterium, which produces a crystal protein as parasporic inclusion in the vegetative cell containing the spore.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Presentation of nonpeptide antigens derived from pathogens involves the nonclassical class I–like CD1 molecule

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Class I presentation requires internal synthesis of virus protein, as shown by the requirement that the target cell be infected by live virus, and by the inhibition of class I presentation observed when protein synthesis was blocked by the inhibitor emetine.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Class II presentation can occur with either live or replication-incompetent virus; protein synthesis inhibitors had no effect, indicating that new protein synthesis is not a necessary condition of class II presentation.

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Class II, but not class I, presentation is inhibited by treatment of the cells with an agent that blocks endocytic processing within the cell (chloroquine).

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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling

Mechanisms to protect an individual from this sort of anti-self immune attack must exist, and they do, called as tolerance