The Gastric Biology of Helicobacter pylori

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 65, Issue , 2003, Pages 349-369

  Sachs, George ^a   Weeks, David L ^a   Melchers, Klaus ^b   Scott, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALTANA Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid resistance; H. pylori; Urea channel; Urease; UreI

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NICKEL; PROTON; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; UREA DERIVATIVE; UREASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; UREI PROTEIN, HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHIMERA; CYTOPLASM; DIMERIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; HELICOBACTER HEPATICUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INCUBATION TIME; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OOCYTE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STOMACH; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH FUNDUS; STOMACH JUICE; STOMACH PH; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; XENOPUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; STOMACH; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0038718459     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.65.092101.142156     Document Type: Review

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