Identification of formyl Met-Leu-Phe in culture filtrates of Helicobacter pylori.
Helicobacter pylori synthesizes and secretes a substance which co-chromatographs and is antigenically cross-reactive with the bacterial chemotactic peptide fMet-Leu-Phe. Using reverse phase and affinity chromatography this substance has now been purified. Carboxypeptidase Y microsequencing has verified that this material is fMet-Leu-Phe. The infiltration of polymorphonuclear leucocytes to sites of H. pylori infection may be a response to mucosal permeation of soluble, diffusable bioreactive substances such as fMet-Leu-Phe.
Broom
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Department of Experimental Medicine, Wellcome Medical Research Institute, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Sherriff
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Munster
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Chadwick
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002268:Carboxypeptidases; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D003470:Culture Media; D016480:Helicobacter pylori / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D011863:Radioimmunoassay
D003470:Culture Media; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine; D002268:Carboxypeptidases; C022633:serine carboxypeptidase