As expected, infection of AGS-MICA transfectants with H. pylori WT or the ΔcagA, ΔcagL and ΔvacA mutants had no significant impact on total MICA mRNA expression (Figure 3C) and total MICA protein levels in whole cell lysates (Figure 3D; Supplementary Figure 11). The gene discussed is MICA; the disease is infection.