Helicobacter pylori specific immune response induced by conservative flagellin linear B-cell epitope

Table 1 Strategy of animal inoculation.

Grouping	Animal	Treatment
Immunized	BALB/c mice	Pep29 mer 50 mg plus equal volume of adjuvant
Adjuvant control	BALB/c mice	Adjuvant only
Nude mice control	BALB/c nude mice	Pep29 mer 50 mg plus equal volume of adjuvant

Table 2 Characteristic divergences of amino acid residues in the central region of flagellin A.

Sequence	Divergent residues
	206th	227th	294th
U632491	I	R	N
U632381	I	Q	N
Hpxa3	I	Q	N
U632531	I	Q	N
Hpxa1	I	Q	N
Hpxa2	I	Q	N
Hpxa5	I	Q	N
U632501	V	Q	N
U632361	V	R	K
AE00014781	V	R	K
U632241	V	R	K
AE0005741	V	R	K
X607461	V	R	K
AJ0093731	V	R	K
Hpxa4	V	R	K
Hpxa6	V	R	K

¹Sequence retrieved from GenBank.