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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Christian Wunder
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-3878 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Wunder Christian C Churin Yuri Y Winau Florian F Warnecke Dirk D Vieth Michael M Lindner Buko B Zähringer Ulrich U Mollenkopf Hans-Joachim HJ Heinz Ernst E Meyer Thomas F TF
Nature medicine 20060903 9
Helicobacter pylori infection causes gastric pathology such as ulcer and carcinoma. Because H. pylori is auxotrophic for cholesterol, we have explored the assimilation of cholesterol by H. pylori in infection. Here we show that H. pylori follows a cholesterol gradient and extracts the lipid from plasma membranes of epithelial cells for subsequent glucosylation. Excessive cholesterol promotes phagocytosis of H. pylori by antigen-presenting cells, such as macrophages and dendritic cells, and enhan ...[more]