H. pylori GPS: Modulating Host Metabolites for Location Sensing.
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- Cell Host & Microbe
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 135–136
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.07.013
- Source
- UCSC Cancer biomedical-ucsc
- License
- Unknown
Abstract
Almost 20 years ago, urea was described as a chemotaxis attractant for Helicobacter pylori. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Huang et al. (2015) report that H. pylori employs its urease enzyme to destroy urea to bring the concentration into a range that provokes an attractant response.
