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Furthermore, GRA28 boosted chromatin accessibility and GRA15\/24\/NF-\u03baB-dependent transcription at the\n              <jats:italic>Ccr7<\/jats:italic>\n              gene locus in primary macrophages.\n              <jats:italic>In vivo<\/jats:italic>\n              , adoptively transferred macrophages infected with wild-type\n              <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic>\n              outcompeted macrophages infected with a GRA15\/24 double mutant in migrating to secondary organs in mice. The data show that\n              <jats:italic>T. gondii<\/jats:italic>\n              , rather than being passively shuttled, actively promotes its dissemination by inducing a finely regulated pro-migratory state in parasitized human and murine phagocytes via co-operating polymorphic GRA effectors.\n            <\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>IMPORTANCE<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>\n              Intracellular pathogens can hijack the cellular functions of infected host cells to their advantage, for example, for intracellular survival and dissemination. However, how microbes orchestrate the hijacking of complex cellular processes, such as host cell migration, remains poorly understood. As such, the common parasite\n              <jats:italic>Toxoplasma gondii<\/jats:italic>\n              actively invades the immune cells of humans and other vertebrates and modifies their migratory properties. 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