Interleukin-8 is the single most up-regulated gene in whole genome profiling of H. pylori exposed gastric epithelial cells

BMC Microbiology

Research Article

Tone M Tannæs¹  Ying Esbensen²  Lars L Eftang³  Ida RK Bukholm⁴  Geir Bukholm⁵ 

[1] Department of Clinical Molecular Biology (Epigen), Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway;Department of Clinical Molecular Biology (Epigen), Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway;Department of Clinical Molecular Biology (Epigen), Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway;Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway;Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway;Institute of Clinical Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, University of Oslo, Lørenskog, Norway;Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;

关键词: Gene Ontology;    Pylorus Infection;    cagA;    Gastric Epithelial Cell;    Pylorus Strain;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2180-12-9

 received in 2011-07-05, accepted in 2012-01-17,  发布年份 2012

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe association between Helicobacter pylori infection and upper gastrointestinal disease is well established. However, only a small fraction of H. pylori carriers develop disease, and there are great geographical differences in disease penetrance. The explanation to this enigma lies in the interaction between the bacterium and the host. H. pylori Outer Membrane Phospholipase A (OMPLA) has been suggested to play a role in the virulence of this bacterium. The aim of this study was to profile the most significant cellular pathways and biological processes affected in gastric epithelial cells during 24 h of H. pylori exposure, and to study the inflammatory response to OMPLA+ and OMPLA-H. pylori variants.ResultsInterleukin-8 was the most significantly up-regulated gene and appears to play a paramount role in the epithelial cell response to H. pylori infection and in the pathological processes leading to gastric disease. MAPK and NF-kappaB cellular pathways were powerfully activated, but did not seem to explain the impressive IL-8 response. There was marked up-regulation of TP53BP2, whose corresponding protein ASPP2 may interact with H. pylori CagA and cause marked p53 suppression of apoptosis. Other regulators of apoptosis also showed abberant regulation. We also identified up-regulation of several oncogenes and down-regulation of tumor suppressor genes as early as during the first 24 h of infection. H. pylori OMPLA phase variation did not seem to influence the inflammatory epithelial cell gene response in this experiment.ConclusionIn whole genome analysis of the epithelial response to H. pylori exposure, IL-8 demonstrated the most marked up-regulation, and was involved in many of the most important cellular response processes to the infection. There was dysregulation of apoptosis, tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes as early as in the first 24 h of H. pylori infection, which may represent early signs of gastric tumorigenesis. OMPLA+/-did not affect the acute inflammatory response to H. pylori.

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