Evolution of functional polymorphism in the gene coding for the Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 253-258

  Ji, Xuhuai ^a,b   Frati, Francesco ^c   Barone, Silvia ^a   Pagliaccia, Cristina ^a   Burroni, Daniela ^a   Xu, Guoming ^b   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Reyrat, Jean Marc ^a   Telford, John L ^a  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Evolution; Geographic variation; Helicobacter pylori; Toxin; VacA

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; DNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA TRANSFER; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ISOLATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CHINA; CYTOTOXINS; DYSPEPSIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 0037050264     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(01)00543-2     Document Type: Article

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