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Activation of β-catenin by carcinogenic <i>Helicobacter pylori</i>
18 Jul 2005
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Persistent gastritis induced by Helicobacter pylori is the strongest known risk factor for adenocarcinoma of the distal stomach, yet only a fraction of colonized persons ever develop gastric cancer. The H. pylori cytotoxin-associated gene (cag) pathogenicity island encodes a type IV secretion system that delivers the bacterial effector CagA into host cells after bacterial attachment, and cag+ strains augment...
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