Bacteria Moving into Focus of Human Cancer

Francesco Boccellato; Thomas F Meyer

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2015.05.016

Bacteria Moving into Focus of Human Cancer

Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Jun 10;17(6):728-30. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.05.016.

Authors

Francesco Boccellato¹, Thomas F Meyer²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
² Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: meyer@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de.

PMID: 26067598
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.05.016

Abstract

Although bacteria have long been associated with human cancer, drawing causal relationships has been difficult. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Scanu et al. (2015) provide evidence for a transforming activity of Salmonella Typhimurium on predisposed host cells, which can subsequently form tumors in a xenograft model.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Gallbladder Neoplasms / pathology*
Host-Pathogen Interactions*
Humans
Salmonella Infections / pathology*
Salmonella enterica / pathogenicity*