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Local pH elevation mediated by the intrabacterial urease of Helicobacter pylori cocultured with gastric cells.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Aug 2000
Athmann C, Zeng N, Kang T, Marcus E A, Scott D R, Rektorschek M, Buhmann A, Melchers K, Sachs G
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori resists gastric acidity by modulating the proton-gated urea channel UreI, allowing for pH(out)-dependent regulation of urea access to intrabacterial urease. We employed pH- and Ca(2+)-sensitive fluorescent dyes and confocal microscopy to determine the location, rate, and magnitude of pH changes in an H. pylori-AGS cell coculture model, comparing wild-type bacteria with nonpolar ureI-deletion...
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