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Helicobacter pylori usurps cell polarity to turn the cell surface into a replicative niche.
PLoS pathogens - 1 May 2009
Tan Shumin, Tompkins Lucy S, Amieva Manuel R
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter pylori (Hp) intimately interacts with the gastric epithelial surface and translocates the virulence factor CagA into host cells in a contact-dependent manner. To study how Hp benefits from interacting with the cell surface, we developed live-cell microscopy methods to follow the fate of individual bacteria on the cell surface and find that Hp is able to replicate and form microcolonies directly over...
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