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Natural variation in populations of persistently colonizing bacteria affect human host cell phenotype.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Aug 2003
Aras Rahul A, Lee Yongchan, Kim Sung-Kook, Israel Dawn, Peek Richard M, Blaser Martin J
Abstract excerpt
The highly diverse bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which persistently colonizes the human stomach, provides models to study the role of genome plasticity in host adaptation. Within H. pylori populations from 2 colonized individuals, intragenomic recombination between cagA DNA repeat sequences leads to deletion or duplication of tyrosine phosphorylation sites in the CagA protein, which is injected by a type IV...
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