{"id":228670,"date":"2026-01-09T21:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sweet-deception-how-mycobacteria-exploit-immune-receptors-to-survive"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:16:03","slug":"sweet-deception-how-mycobacteria-exploit-immune-receptors-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/sweet-deception-how-mycobacteria-exploit-immune-receptors-to-survive","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Deception: How Mycobacteria Exploit Immune Receptors to Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sweet-deception-how-mycobacteria-exploit-immune-receptors-to-survive.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study reveals that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can dodge the host\u2019s immune defenses by targeting an innate pattern recognition receptor on macrophages.<\/p>\n<p>This interaction helps promote the mycobacteria\u2019s ability to survive within the host cells.<\/p>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n<p>A sugar on mycobacteria binds to the immune receptor dectin-1 on host macrophages, helping the bacteria survive and driving susceptibility to infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can dodge the host\u2019s immune defenses by targeting an innate pattern recognition receptor on macrophages. This interaction helps promote the mycobacteria\u2019s ability to survive within the host cells. Read more. A sugar on mycobacteria binds to the immune receptor dectin-1 on host macrophages, helping the bacteria survive and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}