Neutrons identify critical details in bacterial enzyme implicated in gastric cancer

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.
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