Figure 5.

Main putative conserved domains detected by aligning thyroglobulin, thyroid peroxidase, and thyroid stimulating hormone receptor with H. pylori proteins. “Query”: Amino acid sequence of the human proteins. “Subject”: Amino acid sequence of the bacterial protein present in the data base. “+” indicates that the amino acid in the sequence “query” and that one in the sequence “subject” are similar from a chemical-physic point of view. The numbers in the sequence represent the initial and final positions of the amino acid sequence.