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Moonlighting of Helicobacter pylori catalase protects against complement-mediated killing by utilising the host molecule vitronectin

Helicobacter pylori is an important human pathogen and a common cause of peptic ulcers and gastric cancer. Despite H. pylori provoking strong innate and adaptive immune responses, the bacterium is able to successfully establish long-term infections. Vitronectin (Vn), a component of both the extracel...

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Autores principales: Richter, Corinna, Mukherjee, Oindrilla, Ermert, David, Singh, Birendra, Su, Yu-Ching, Agarwal, Vaibhav, Blom, Anna M., Riesbeck, Kristian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4834553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27087644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep24391