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Bacterial intoxication evokes cellular senescence with persistent DNA damage and cytokine signalling.
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine - 1 Jan 2010
Blazkova Hana, Krejcikova Katerina, Moudry Pavel, Frisan Teresa, Hodny Zdenek, Bartek Jiri
Abstract excerpt
Cytolethal distending toxins (CDTs) are proteins produced and secreted by facultative pathogenic strains of Gram-negative bacteria with potentially genotoxic effects. Mammalian cells exposed to CDTs undergo cell type-dependent cell-cycle arrest or apoptosis; however, the cell fate responses to such intoxication are mechanistically incompletely understood. Here we show that both normal and cancer cells (BJ, IMR-90...
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