... BY) . cholesterol Coxiella burnetti Coxiella Containing Vacuole lipid droplets lipids phosphatidylinositol phosphates (PIPs) Obligate intracellular bacterial pathogens survive in diverse intracellular niches. For vacuole-bound pathogens such as Coxiella burnetii, Anaplasma phagocytophilum...

... membrane does not favor the formation of an L o membrane. In the stationary phase, however, the vacuolar domain formation and lipophagy, i.e. engulfment of lipid droplets (LDs) by the vacuolar membrane, proceed in a feedforward manner, indicating that ergosterol released from digested LDs is inserted...