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These data suggest that cytosolic\n            <jats:italic>L.\u00a0monocytogenes<\/jats:italic>\n            interprets a combination of metabolic and redox cues as a signal to initiate robust virulence gene expression\n            <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n            .\n          <\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>\n            <jats:bold>IMPORTANCE<\/jats:bold>\n            Intracellular pathogens are responsible for much of the worldwide morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases. These pathogens have evolved various strategies to proliferate within individual cells of the host and avoid the host immune response. Through cellular invasion or the use of specialized secretion machinery, all intracellular pathogens must access the host cell cytosol to establish their replicative niches. Determining how these pathogens sense and respond to the intracellular compartment to establish a successful infection is critical to our basic understanding of the pathogenesis of each organism and for the rational design of therapeutic interventions.\n            <jats:italic>Listeria monocytogenes<\/jats:italic>\n            is a model intracellular pathogen with robust\n            <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic>\n            and\n            <jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>\n            infection models. Studies of the host-sensing and downstream signaling mechanisms evolved by\n            <jats:italic>L.\u00a0monocytogenes<\/jats:italic>\n            often describe themes of pathogenesis that are broadly applicable to less tractable pathogens. 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