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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 168, Issue 12, Pages 6002-6006Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.168.12.6002
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK02469, DK53620, DK56938] Funding Source: Medline
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Inducible NO synthase (iNOS) expression and production of NO are both up-regulated with Helicobacter pylori infection in vivo and in vitro. We determined whether major pathogenicity proteins released by H. pylori activate iNOS by coculturing macrophages with wild-type or mutant strains deficient in VacA, CagA, picB product, or urease (ureA(-)). When filters were used to separate H. pylori from macrophages, there was a selective and significant decrease in stimulated iNOS mRNA, protein, and NO2- production with the ureA(-) strain compared with wild-type and other mutants. Similarly, macrophage NO2- generation was increased by H. pylori protein water extracts of all strains except ureA-. Recombinant urease stimulated significant increases in macrophage iNOS expression and NO2- production. Taken together, these findings indicate a new role for the essential H. pylori survival factor, urease, implicating it in NO-dependent mucosal damage and carcinogenesis.
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