TheChlamydia trachomatisInc Tri1 interacts with TRAF7 to displace native TRAF7 interacting partners

is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted infections in the US and of preventable blindness worldwide. This obligate intracellular pathogen replicates within a membrane-bound inclusion, but how it acquires nutrients from the host while avoiding detection by the innate immune system is incompletely understood.