Neutrons identify critical details in bacterial enzyme implicated in gastric cancer

(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Neutron analysis at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory 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.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news