Evolution of the Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin in a human stomach

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Aviles-Jimenez, F
Letley, DP
Gonzalez-Valencia, G
Salama, N
Torres, J
Atherton, JC [1 ]
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[1] Univ Nottingham Hosp, Wolfson Digest Dis Ctr, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England
[2] Univ Nottingham Hosp, Inst Infect Immun & Inflammat, Nottingham NG7 2UH, England
[3] IMSS, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
[4] Fred Hutchinson Canc Res Ctr, Human Biol Div, Seattle, WA 98104 USA
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10.1128/jb.186.15.5182-5185.2004
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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We describe two subclones of Helicobacter pylori, isolated contemporaneously from a human stomach, which differ markedly in the vacuolating cytotoxin gene, vacA, but whose near identity in sequences outside this locus implies a very recent common origin. The differences are consistent with homologous recombination with DNA from another strain and result in a changed vacA midregion and, importantly, in changed toxicity.
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