Skip to main content
. 2019 Jan 2;7(1):42–49. doi: 10.1093/gastro/goy048

Table 3.

List of amino-acid substitutions that are significantly associated with metronidazole-resistant H. pylori clinical strains

Clustera Consensus AA residue and position No. of strains with consensus AA
No. of strains with variant AA
Total variable sites including gaps Adjusted P-value Protein description
MR MS MR MS
522 R16 30 44 13 (H), 5 (C) 4 (H) 72 0.038 Oxygen-insensitive NAD(P)H nitroreductase RdxA (HP0954)
902 D85 38 47 10 (N) 0 33 0.021 Inner-membrane protein RclC (HP0565)
978 V265 35 47 12 (I) 1 (I) 66 0.047 Biotin carboxylase (HP0370)
993 A51 33 47 9 (V), 5 (T) 1 (V) 41 0.006 Putative threonylcarbamoyl–AMP synthase (HP0918)

AA, amino acid; MR, metronidazole-resistant; MS, metronidazole-susceptible.

aAlignment of each protein cluster is available at the public data repository Figshare (https://figshare.com/), with doi 10.6084/m9.figshare.5271046.