BASEHIT scores home run: elucidates pathogen–host interactions.

In a tour de force, Hart and colleagues recently used a technique known as BASEHIT (bacterial selection to elucidate host–microbe interactions in high throughput) to screen a yeast display library containing 3324 curated human exoproteins with 82 pathogen samples, focusing on vector-borne pathogens, to identify 1303 putative interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]