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SUBMITTER: Ogden SR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2555941 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ogden Seth R SR Wroblewski Lydia E LE Weydig Christiane C Romero-Gallo Judith J O'Brien Daniel P DP Israel Dawn A DA Krishna Uma S US Fingleton Barbara B Reynolds Albert B AB Wessler Silja S Peek Richard M RM
Molecular biology of the cell 20080723 10
Helicobacter pylori is the strongest known risk factor for gastric adenocarcinoma, yet only a fraction of infected persons develop cancer. One H. pylori constituent that augments disease risk is the cytotoxin-associated gene (cag) pathogenicity island, which encodes a secretion system that translocates bacterial effector molecules into host cells. Matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-7, a member of a family of enzymes with tumor-initiating properties, is overexpressed in premalignant and malignant gas ...[more]