Helicobacter bilis gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase enhances inflammatory stress response via oxidative stress in colon epithelial cells.

Helicobacter bilis (H. bilis) infection is associated with cases of inflammatory bowel Disease, thyphlocolitis, hepatitis and cholecystitis. However, little is known about the bacterial virulence determinants or the molecular mechanisms involved. Recently, H. bilis γ-glutamyltranspeptidase (HBgGT) w...

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Main Authors: Sundus Javed, Raquel Mejías-Luque, Behnam Kalali, Christian Bolz, Markus Gerhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3751837?pdf=render