| Literature DB >> 11119549 |
V Q Nguyen1, R M Caprioli, T L Cover.
Abstract
The vacA gene of Helicobacter pylori strain 60190 encodes a 1, 287-amino-acid protoxin, which undergoes cleavage of a 33-amino-acid amino-terminal signal sequence and carboxy-terminal proteolytic processing to yield a mature secreted toxin. Several features of VacA suggest that it belongs to the autotransporter family of gram-negative bacterial secreted proteins. Based on matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometric analysis, we calculate that the mature toxin has a mass of 88.2+/-0.2 kDa and consists of approximately 821 amino acids.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11119549 PMCID: PMC97915 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.1.543-546.2001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441