José B Sáenz1, Nancy Vargas1, Jason C Mills2. 1. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri. 2. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri; Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri; Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri. Electronic address: jmills@wustl.edu.
Abstract
BACKGROUND & AIMS: In patients with chronic Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection, parietal and chief cell atrophy in the gastric corpus, a process known as spasmolytic polypeptide-expressing metaplasia (SPEM), increases the risk for progression to cancer. The relation between H pylori and these metaplastic changes is unclear. We investigated whether H pylori localizes to regions of SPEM. METHODS: We developed an in situ adherence assay in which we incubated H pylori with free-floating tissue sections from the gastric corpora of mice; we assessed H pylori distribution along the gastric unit by immunofluorescence. We analyzed the interactions of H pylori with tissue collected from mice with acute SPEM, induced by high-dose tamoxifen. We also evaluated how adhesin-deficient H pylori strains, chemical competition assays, and epithelial glycosylation affected H pylori adhesion to SPEM glands. Mice colonized with the mouse-adapted PMSS1 strain were analyzed for H pylori colonization in vivo during tamoxifen-induced SPEM or after decrease of stomach acid with omeprazole. RESULTS: Compared with uninjured glands, H pylori penetrated deep within SPEM glands, in situ, through interaction of its adhesin, SabA, with sialyl-Lewis X, which expanded in SPEM. H pylori markedly increased gastric corpus colonization when SPEM was induced, but this proximal spread reversed in mice allowed to recover from SPEM. Decreasing corpus acidity also promoted proximal spread. However, H pylori penetrated deep within corpus glands in vivo only when sialyl-Lewis X expanded during SPEM. CONCLUSIONS: Helicobacter pylori differentially binds SPEM glands in situ and in mice, in large part by interacting with sialyl-Lewis X. Our findings indicate that H pylori expands its niche into the gastric corpus by promoting and exploiting epithelial metaplastic changes that can lead to tumorigenesis.
BACKGROUND & AIMS: In patients with chronic Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection, parietal and chief cell atrophy in the gastric corpus, a process known as spasmolytic polypeptide-expressing metaplasia (SPEM), increases the risk for progression to cancer. The relation between H pylori and these metaplastic changes is unclear. We investigated whether H pylori localizes to regions of SPEM. METHODS: We developed an in situ adherence assay in which we incubated H pylori with free-floating tissue sections from the gastric corpora of mice; we assessed H pylori distribution along the gastric unit by immunofluorescence. We analyzed the interactions of H pylori with tissue collected from mice with acute SPEM, induced by high-dose tamoxifen. We also evaluated how adhesin-deficient H pylori strains, chemical competition assays, and epithelial glycosylation affected H pylori adhesion to SPEM glands. Mice colonized with the mouse-adapted PMSS1 strain were analyzed for H pylori colonization in vivo during tamoxifen-induced SPEM or after decrease of stomach acid with omeprazole. RESULTS: Compared with uninjured glands, H pylori penetrated deep within SPEM glands, in situ, through interaction of its adhesin, SabA, with sialyl-Lewis X, which expanded in SPEM. H pylori markedly increased gastric corpus colonization when SPEM was induced, but this proximal spread reversed in mice allowed to recover from SPEM. Decreasing corpus acidity also promoted proximal spread. However, H pylori penetrated deep within corpus glands in vivo only when sialyl-Lewis X expanded during SPEM. CONCLUSIONS:Helicobacter pylori differentially binds SPEM glands in situ and in mice, in large part by interacting with sialyl-Lewis X. Our findings indicate that H pylori expands its niche into the gastric corpus by promoting and exploiting epithelial metaplastic changes that can lead to tumorigenesis.
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