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Sites of pH regulation of the urea channel of Helicobacter pylori.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Jun 2001
Weeks D L, Sachs G
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori (Hp) and Streptococcus salivarius (Ss) require intrabacterial urease for acid resistance and express a urea channel, UreI. The presence of UreI was shown to increase urea permeability approximately 300-fold over that of a non-polar ureI deletion mutant. Expression of SsUreI in Xenopus oocytes increased urea uptake pH independently, whereas HpUreI shows an acidic pH dependence, half-maximal at...
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