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Arginine 66 residue of Fur is required for the regulatory function of this protein in the acid adaptation mechanism of Helicobacter pylori.
Helicobacter - 1 Feb 2012
Toledo Héctor, Villafaena Carlos, Valenzuela Manuel, López-Solís Remigio
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BACKGROUND: Helicobacter pylori colonizes the gastric mucosa and must survive the acid pH of that environment. Like other enteric bacterial pathogens, including Salmonella enterica, H. pylori develops an acid tolerance response that is dependent on the function of the transcriptional regulator protein Fur. OBJECTIVE: To explore by site-directed mutagenesis whether two particular amino acid residues in the amino...
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