Table 1.

Selected bacteria and associated immune evasion molecules

Process blocked or targeted	Bacteria (selected)	Selected molecules involved
Phagocytosis	Streptococcus pyogenes	M protein, Mac
	Klebsiella pneumoniae	capsular polysaccharide
	Yersinia	YopE, YopH
Recruitment	Staphylococcus aureus	CHIPS, FLIPr, SSL3, SElX
	S. pyogenes	ScpA, ScpC, Sse, ZmpC
	Bordetella pertussis	BopN
	Shigella flexneri	OspF
Antimicrobial peptide actions	S. aureus	aureolysin
	S. pyogenes	SpeB
Antibody function	S. aureus	SpA, Sbi
	S. pyogenes	SpeB, IdeS
NADPH oxidase activation and/or assembly	Francisella tularensis	FevR
	Yersinia spp.	YopE, YopH
	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	ExoS
Apoptosis/cell lysis	Anaplasma phagocytophilum	Ats-1
	F. tularensis	lipoproteins
	P. aeruginosa	pyocyanin
	S. pyogenes	streptolysin O/streptolysin S
	S. aureus	LukGH, PVL
Lysosome or granule-phagosome	S. pyogenes	M protein
fusion	Yersinia pseudotuberculosis	YopE, YopH