Bacterial pathogenesis: Activating Helicobacter effector delivery

Nature Reviews Microbiology 15, 708 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2017.135 Author: Irene Vacca A recent study revealed how H. pylori opens cell-to-cell junctions and traverses the gastric epithelium to bind to basolateral integrins, thereby activating the assembly and function of its type IV secretion system.
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