Ornithine Decarboxylase in Gastric Epithelial Cells Promotes the Immunopathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori Infection
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ABSTRACT: Colonization by H. pylori is associated with a wide range of gastric diseases, ranging from superficial gastritis to more severe pathologies, including intestinal metaplasia and adenocarcinoma. The interplay of the host response and the pathogen affect the outcome of disease. One major component of the mucosal response to H. pylori is the activation of a strong, but inefficient immune response that fails to control the infection and frequently causes tissue damage. We have shown that polyamines can regulate H. pylori-induced inflammation. Chemical inhibition of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), which generates putrescine from L-ornithine, reduces gastritis in mice and adenocarcinoma incidence in gerbils infected with H. pylori. However, we have also demonstrated that Odc deletion in myeloid cells enhances M1 macrophage activation and gastritis. Here we used a genetic approach to assess the specific role of gastric epithelial ODC during H. pylori infection. Deletion of Odc in gastric epithelial cells reduces gastritis, attenuates epithelial proliferaton, alters the metabolome, and dowregulates the expression of immune mediators induced by H. pylori. Inhibition of ODC activity in gastric epithelial cells reduces H. pylori-induced NF-B activation and CXCL8 mRNA expression. Chronic inflammation is a major risk factor for the progression to more severe pathologies associated with H. pylori infection and we now show that epithelial ODC plays an important role in mediating this inflammatory response.
INSTRUMENT(S): Liquid Chromatography MS - positive - hilic
SUBMITTER: M. Wade Calcutt
PROVIDER: MTBLS3235 | MetaboLights | 2022-06-15
REPOSITORIES: MetaboLights
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