CDH1 and infection: Despite the lack of the interaction between InlA and mouse E-cadherin due to a structural deviation (Lecuit et al., 1999), we and others proved that colonization of target organs was still effective in an oral mouse infection model using L. monocytogenes (Barbour et al., 2001; Bou Ghanem et al., 2012; Feehily et al., 2014; Jones et al., 2015).