Title |
Detection of antibodies directed at M. hyorhinis p37 in the serum of men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer
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Published in |
BMC Cancer, June 2011
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2407-11-233 |
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Authors |
Cydney Urbanek, Steve Goodison, Myron Chang, Stacy Porvasnik, Noburo Sakamoto, Chen-zhong Li, Susan K Boehlein, Charles J Rosser |
Abstract |
Recent epidemiologic, genetic, and molecular studies suggest infection and inflammation initiate certain cancers, including cancers of the prostate. Over the past several years, our group has been studying how mycoplasmas could possibly initiate and propagate cancers of the prostate. Specifically, Mycoplasma hyorhinis encoded protein p37 was found to promote invasion of prostate cancer cells and cause changes in growth, morphology and gene expression of these cells to a more aggressive phenotype. Moreover, we found that chronic exposure of benign human prostate cells to M. hyorhinis resulted in significant phenotypic and karyotypic changes that ultimately resulted in the malignant transformation of the benign cells. In this study, we set out to investigate another potential link between mycoplasma and human prostate cancer. |
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