The sodium/proline transporter PutP of Helicobacter pylori.

Helicobacter pylori is cause of chronic gastritis, duodenal ulcer and gastric carcinoma in humans. L-proline is a preferred energy source of the microaerophilic bacterium. Previous analyses revealed that HpputP and HpputA, the genes that are predicted to play a central role in proline metabolism as...

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Main Authors: Araceli Rivera-Ordaz, Susanne Bracher, Sannia Sarrach, Zheng Li, Lei Shi, Matthias Quick, Daniel Hilger, Rainer Haas, Heinrich Jung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24358297/pdf/?tool=EBI