| Literature DB >> 15262958 |
Francisco Aviles-Jimenez1, Darren P Letley, Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia, Nina Salama, Javier Torres, John C Atherton.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15262958 PMCID: PMC451639 DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.15.5182-5185.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490