A greasy foothold for Helicobacter pylori.
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.
Wandler
Anica M
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Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA.
Parthasarathy
Raghuveer
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Guillemin
Karen
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