Çagla Tükel, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) and LKSOM colleagues show in new work that in mice infected with Salmonella enterica Typhimurium, the fibrous protein curli amyloid provokes the generation of autoantibodies and joint inflammation. The study was published online in the journal PLOS Pathogens and highlighted in outlets including Medical Xpress.