Bacterial Protein Mimics Its Host to Disable a Key Enzyme

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This is interesting - and gives a sense of why this particularbacteria is hard to eradicate and how it evolved to confuse the body on purpose. Also, how it triggers side effects like obesity, etc. Likely, it's descriptive of morebacteria than just helicobacter pylori (the bacteria that causes ulcers). And whythey are such a problem to eradicate in the gut and elsewhere. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091231152128.htmBacterial Protein Mimics Its Host to Disable a Key EnzymeScienceDaily (Jan. 2, 2010) — Helicobacter pyloriinfects up to 90 percent of people in the developing world and causes gastric ulcers and cancers of the gut. Now scientists have revealed a subterfuge used by the bacterium to trick stomach cells into playing along. By injecting a protein into the stomach lining that mimics a native protein but has its opposite effect, the bacterium shuts down a process that helps properly structure stomach tissue, scientists say.