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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Janos Demeter
PROVIDER: E-SMDB-1661 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Guillemin Karen K Salama Nina R NR Tompkins Lucy S LS Falkow Stanley S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021031 23
Helicobacter pylori infects over half the world's population and causes a wide range of diseases, including gastritis, peptic ulcer, and two forms of gastric cancer. H. pylori infection elicits a variety of phenotypic responses in cultured gastric epithelial cells, including the expression of proinflammatory genes and changes in the actin cytoskeleton. Both of these responses are mediated by the type IV secretion system (TFSS) encoded by the cag pathogenicity island (cag PAI). We used human cDNA ...[more]