A greasy foothold for Helicobacter pylori

Anica M Wandler; Raghuveer Parthasarathy; Karen Guillemin

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2010.05.001

A greasy foothold for Helicobacter pylori

Cell Host Microbe. 2010 May 20;7(5):338-9. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2010.05.001.

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Anica M Wandler¹, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Karen Guillemin

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¹ Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.

PMID: 20478534
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2010.05.001

Abstract

In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Murata-Kamiya and colleagues (Murata-Kamiya et al., 2010) report that the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori uses the plasma membrane component phosphatidylserine to facilitate translocation of the CagA virulence factor into host cells to establish a successful infection.

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