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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 87, pp. 6068-6072, August 1990 Medical Sciences Listeria monocytogenes moves rapidly through the host-cell cytoplasm by inducing directional actin assembly (actin polymerization/a actinin/tropomyosin/myosin/nonmuscle cells) Guissou A. DABIRI*, JEAN M. SANGERt, DANIEL A. PORTNOYt, AND FREDERICK S. SOUTHWICK*§ Departments of *Medicine, Infectious Disease Section, 536 Johnson Pavilion, and tAnatomy, and tMicrobiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Communicated by Louis B. Flexner, May 8, 1990 ABSTRACT