Peptic Ulcer and Gastric Cancer: Is It All in the Complex Host-Microbiome Interplay That Is Encoded in the Genomes of "Us" and "Them"?

Overview

Journal Front Microbiol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2022 May 13

PMID 35547123

Authors

Angitha N Nath

R J Retnakumar

Ashik Francis

Prakash Chhetri

Namrata Thapa

Santanu Chattopadhyay

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Abstract

It is increasingly being recognized that severe gastroduodenal diseases such as peptic ulcer and gastric cancer are not just the outcomes of infection in the stomach. Rather, both diseases develop and progress due to the perfect storms created by a combination of multiple factors such as the expression of different virulence proteins, consequent human immune responses, and dysbiosis in gastrointestinal microbiomes. In this mini review, we have discussed how the genomes of and other gastrointestinal microbes as well as the genomes of different human populations encode complex and variable virulome-immunome interplay, which influences gastroduodenal health. The heterogeneities that are encrypted in the genomes of different human populations and in the genomes of their respective resident microbes partly explain the inconsistencies in clinical outcomes among the -infected people.

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