title: A Sour Relationship between BabA and Lewis b.
abstract: Helicobacter pylori survives in the hostile acidic environment of the stomach through extensive adaptation. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Bugaytsova et al. (2017) report an acid-responsive, reversible adherence of H. pylori BabA to the gastric mucosa, the strength of which is tuned by dynamic BabA adaptation.
authors.affiliation: Division of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; Max Planck - The University of Tokyo Center for Integrative Inflammology, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan; Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama 332-0012, Japan. Electronic address: mhata@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hatakeyama
mesh_terms: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial; D001422:Bacterial Adhesion; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000276:immunology; D016481:Helicobacter Infections; D016480:Helicobacter pylori; D006801:Humans; D007983:Lewis Blood Group Antigens
chemical_list: D018829:Adhesins, Bacterial; D007983:Lewis Blood Group Antigens