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BabA-mediated adherence of pediatric ulcerogenic H. pylori strains to gastric m...

Helicobacter pylori infection can result in non-ulcer dyspepsia (NUD), peptic ulcer disease (PUD), adenocarcinoma, and gastric lymphoma. H. pylori reside within the gastric mucus layer, mainly composed of mucins carrying an array of glycan structures that can serve as bacterial adhesion epitopes. The aim of the present study was to characterize the binding ability, adhesion modes, and growth of H. pylori strain...

Notch/Her12 signalling modulates, motile/immotile cilia ratio downstream of Fox...

Foxj1a is necessary and sufficient to specify motile cilia. Using transcriptional studies and slow-scan two-photon live imaging capable of identifying the number of motile and immotile cilia, we now established that the final number of motile cilia depends on Notch signalling (NS). We found that despite all left-right organizer (LRO) cells express foxj1a and the ciliary axonemes of these cells have dynein arms,...

New NCI-N87-derived human gastric epithelial line after human telomerase cataly...

AIM: To establish a cellular model correctly mimicking the gastric epithelium to overcome the limitation in the study of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori ) infection. METHODS: Aiming to overcome this limitation, clones of the heterogenic cancer-derived NCI-N87 cell line were isolated, by stably-transducing it with the human telomerase reverse-transcriptase (hTERT) catalytic subunit gene. The clones were first cha...

Singlet oxygen in antimicrobial photodynamic therapy: photosensitizer-dependent...

Several families of photosensitizers are currently being scrutinized for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy applications. Differences in physical and photochemical properties can lead to different localization patterns as well as differences in singlet oxygen production and decay when the photosensitizers are taken up by bacterial cells. We have examined the production and fate of singlet oxygen in Escherichia ...

Proteome variability among Helicobacter pylori isolates clustered according to ...

Aims: To understand whether the variability found in the proteome of Helicobacter pylori relates to the genomic methylation, virulence and associated gastric disease. Methods and Results: We applied the Minimum-Common-Restriction- Modification (MCRM) algorithm to genomic methylation data of 30 Portuguese H. pylori strains, obtained by genome sensitivity to Type II restriction enzymes’ digestion. All the generat...

Helicobacter pylori - Associated Dyspepsia in Paediatrics

Helicobacter pylori ubiquitously infects the human gastric mucosa since time immemorial,predictably before the man’s diaspora out of East Africa around 58,000 years ago [1].Colonization may have been somehow beneficial for human carriers, allowing the coevolutionof this gram-negative bacterium and its host over the centuries. Yet, at leastnowadays [2], this may not be a peaceful association, with infection almo...

Proteome variability among helicobacter pylori isolates clustered according to ...

Aims To understand whether the variability found in the proteome of Helicobacter pylori relates to the genomic methylation, virulence and associated gastric disease. Methods and Results We applied the Minimum‐Common‐Restriction‐Modification (MCRM) algorithm to genomic methylation data of 30 Portuguese H. pylori strains, obtained by genome sensitivity to Type II restriction enzymes' digestion. All the generated ...

Screening of Prophage Sequences Among Helicobacter Pylori

Until recently, Helicobacter pylori was considered a bacterium without prophages. The presence of an incomplete prophage sequence in strain B38 and a complete prophage sequence in strain B45 showed otherwise. Using a PCR strategy, based on degenerated primers designed after aligning bacteriophage integrase genes from H. pylori strains B38 and B45, and H. acinonychis prophage II, we found that integrase sequence...

The ulcerogenic profile of Helicobacter pylori paediatric strains associated wi...

Helicobacter pylori infection is the major cause of paediatric peptic ulcer disease (PUD). In children with no other aetiology for the disease, this rare event occurs shortly after infection, presuming a still poorly understood higher susceptibility of the patient and highlighting the virulence of the implicated strain. Recently, we showed that the enhanced virulence of a group of paediatric ulcerogenic-strains...

Ulcerogenic profile of helicobacter pylori pediatric strains: a contribution to...