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JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 189, Issue 5, Pages 820-827Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/381782
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We investigated the relationship between the diversity of Helicobacter pylori CagA protein and clinical outcome. The cagA gene was sequenced in 115 clinical isolates. The binding affinity of CagA to Src homology 2 domain containing tyrosine phosphatase (SHP-2) was examined by in vitro infection. Two major CagA subtypes were observed - the East Asian and the Western type. The grades of inflammation, activity of gastritis, and atrophy were significantly higher in patients with gastritis infected with the East Asian CagA-positive strain than in patients with gastritis infected with cagA-negative or Western CagA-positive strains. All strains isolated from patients with gastric cancer were East Asian CagA positive. East Asian CagA exhibited stronger SHP-2-binding activity than did Western CagA. These findings suggest that infection with East Asian CagA - positive H. pylori is associated with atrophic gastritis and gastric cancer and that persistent active inflammation induced by the East Asian CagA- positive strain may play a role in the pathogenesis of disease.
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