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In vitro and in vivo characterization of Helicobacter hepaticus cytolethal distending toxin mutants.
Infection and immunity - 1 May 2004
Young Vincent B, Knox Kimberly A, Pratt Jason S, Cortez Jennifer S, Mansfield Linda S, Rogers Arlin B, Fox James G, Schauer David B
Abstract excerpt
Helicobacter hepaticus expresses a member of the cytolethal distending toxin (CDT) family of bacterial cytotoxins. To investigate the role of CDT in the pathogenesis of H. hepaticus, transposon mutagenesis was used to generate a series of isogenic mutants in and around the cdtABC gene cluster. An H. hepaticus transposon mutant with a disrupted cdtABC coding region no longer produced CDT activity. Conversely, a...
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