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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 67-73Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2004.12.004
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Secreted proteins are of general interest from the perspective of bacteria-host interaction. The gastric bacterial pathogen Helicobacter pylori uses a set of secreted and translocated proteins - including outer membrane adhesins, secreted extracellular enzymes and translocated effector proteins - to adapt to its extraordinary habitat, the gastric mucosa. Two major virulence factors of H. pylori are the vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA) and the cag type-IV secretion system and its translocated effector protein, cytotoxin-associated antigen A (CagA). VacA targets not only epithelial cells, but also cells of the immune system and induces immunosuppression. CagA has been shown to interact with a growing set of eucaryotic signaling molecules in phosphorylation-dependent and -independent ways.
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