Journal
FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 105, Issue -, Pages 16-27Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2016.09.024
Keywords
Helicobacter pylori; Reactive oxygen species; Polyamines; NADPH oxidase; Gastric cancer
Funding
- NIH [R01DK053620, R01AT004821, R01CA190612, P01CA028842, P01CA116087]
- Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Grant [I01BX001453]
- Thomas F. Frist Sr. Endowment
- Vanderbilt Center for Mucosal Inflammation and Cancer
- Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center [P30DK058404]
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Helicobacter pylori is a Gram-negative bacterium that specifically colonizes the gastric ecological niche. During the infectious process, which results in diseases ranging from chronic gastritis to gastric cancer, the host response is characterized by the activation of the innate immunity of gastric epithelial cells and macrophages. These cells thus produce effector molecules such as reactive oxygen species (ROS) to counteract the infection. The generation of ROS in response to H. pylori involves two canonical pathways: 1) the NADPH-dependent reduction of molecular oxygen to generate O-2(.-), which can dismute to generate ROS; and 2) the back-conversion of the polyamine spermine into spermidine through the enzyme spermine oxidase, leading to H2O2 production. Although these products have the potential to affect the survival of bacteria, H. pylori has acquired numerous strategies to counteract their deleterious effects. Nonetheless, ROS-mediated oxidative DNA damage and mutations may participate in the adaptation of H. pylori to its ecological niche. Lastly, ROS have been shown to play a major role in the development of the inflammation and carcinogenesis. It is the purpose of this review to summarize the literature about the production of ROS during H. pylori infection and their role in this infectious gastric disease.
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