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Bacterial cytolethal distending toxin promotes the development of dysplasia in a model of microbially induced hepatocarcinogenesis.
Cellular microbiology - 1 Aug 2007
Ge Zhongming, Rogers Arlin B, Feng Yan, Lee Amy, Xu Shilu, Taylor Nancy S, Fox James G
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Bacterial cytolethal distending toxins (CDTs) containing DNase I-like activity can induce limited host DNA damage that leads to activation of the DNA-damage repair responses in cultured cell lines. However, in vivo experimental evidence linking CDTs to carcinogenesis is lacking. In this study, infection of A/JCr mice with an isogenic mutant of Helicobacter hepaticus lacking CDT activity (CDT mutant) induced...
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