Unveiling a missing component of the atypical type IV secretion system required for natural transformation of Helicobacter pylori
J. Francisco Villa, Sumedha M. Kondekar, Yoann Fauconnet, Mérick Machouri, Céline Lacrouts, Xavier Veaute, Raphaël Guérois, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Jessica Andréani, Juan Pablo Radicella
The paper identifies a missing component of the ComB T4SS in H. pylori essential for DNA uptake, showing it is a hexameric ATPase interacting with ComB4.
PLoS Pathogens · Jul 14, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology