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Vibrio cholerae cytolysin causes an inflammatory response in human intestinal epithelial cells that is modulated by the PrtV protease.
PloS one - 12 Nov 2009
Ou Gangwei, Rompikuntal Pramod Kumar, Bitar Aziz, Lindmark Barbro, Vaitkevicius Karolis, Wai Sun Nyunt, Hammarström Marie-Louise
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Vibrio cholerae is the causal intestinal pathogen of the diarrheal disease cholera. It secretes the protease PrtV, which protects the bacterium from invertebrate predators but reduces the ability of Vibrio-secreted factor(s) to induce interleukin-8 (IL-8) production by human intestinal epithelial cells. The aim was to identify the secreted component(s) of V. cholerae that induces an epithelial...
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