Neutrons identify critical details in bacterial enzyme implicated in gastric cancer
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 20:31
in Biology & Nature
Neutron analysis is helping researchers better understand a key enzyme found in a bacterium known to cause stomach cancer. Understanding the details of this enzyme, and thus the Helicobacter pylori bacteria's metabolism and biological pathways, could be central to developing drugs that act against H. pylori, but that do not attack the stomach's useful bacteria.