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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Yamuna Kondapally, M.B.B.S[2]
Overview
Person to person transmission is considered to be the most likely route of transmission of Helicobacter pylori. H. pylori is a noninvasive organism. It is found over mucus secreting cells but not in deeper gastric glands. Hence it can only inhabit gastric-type mucus but cannot colonize the esophagus or duodenum. Pathogenesis of H. pylori infection depends on bacterial, host and environmental factors.
Pathophysiology
- The mode of transmission of H. pylori is poorly understood.[1][2][3]
- Person to person transmission is considered to be the most likely route.
- It is almost always acquired during childhood and infection is lifelong if left untreated.[4]
- Helicobacter pylori is usually transmitted via the following routes:
- Iatrogenic
- Via tubes and endoscopes that have been in contact with the gastric mucosa of one individual are used for another patient
- Between patient and staff especially among endoscopists and gastroenterologists
- Fecal-oral route
- Oral-oral route
- Distal adenocarcinoma is the most common gastric adenocarcinoma which is caused by H. pylori.
- The colonization of H. pylori in gastric mucosa depends on the following factors:
- Motility of H. pylori (The corkscrew motility is due to its multiple flagella and spiral shape)
- Chemotaxis
- Environmental sensing
- Acid resistance
- Iron acquisition
- H. pylori primarily colonizes in gastric mucosa but occasionally found at other sites also. The few of the sites include eyes, nasal cavity, gallbladder, peritoneum, and oral cavity.
Pathogenesis
- The pathogenesis involves four important steps. They are:
- Adhesion of H. pylori to host cell
- Decreasing the gastric acid content of stomach
- Colonization
- Inflammation
- Based on the location of inflammation, the pathogenesis depends on:[5]
- Antral-predominant inflammation: The uninflamed corpus produces large amount of acid predisposing to duodenal ulceration
- Corpus-predominant inflammation: This leads to gastric ulceration and adenocarcinoma due to hypochlorhydria
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Factors Associated With Pathogenesis
- H. pylori is a non invasive organism. It is found over mucus secreting cells but not in deeper gastric glands. Hence it can only inhabit gastric-type mucus but cannot colonize the esophagus or duodenum. [6]. The pathogenesis of H. pylori depends up on the following:[5]
| Factors Associated With H. pylori Pathogenesis | ||
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| Bacterial | Host | Environmental |
| Flagella | Immune response to H. pylori |
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| Bacterial enzymes | ||
Hormonal and acid homeostasis changes
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Bacterial Virulence factors
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1: Bacterial factors
A. Flagella
H. pylori propels through the mucus layer with the help of flagella and adheres to the gastric epithelial cells through fimbriae which are the extension of bacterial cytoplasm.
B. Bacterial enzymes
The bacterial enzymes associated with pathogenesis of H. pylori infection include:[7]
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- Lipase and protease leads to degradation of protective mucous layer of the stomach
- Protease leads to disintegration of the polymeric structure of mucin
- Phospholipase A2 and lipase leads to loss of mucosal surface hydrophobicity, mucus lipid degradation, and lysophospholipid generation[8][9]
- Lysophospholipids disrupts the phospholipid rich layer at the apical surface of mucous cells
- Gastric acid resistance plays a crucial role in pathogenesis of H.pylori infection.[10][11]
- Urease is one of the most abundant protein produced by H.pyloi, whose production is regulated by one of the genes associated with gastric acid resistance
- The urease of H.pylori has two subunits, UreA and UreB.[12][13]
- This enzyme hydrolyzes urea to ammonia and carbon dioxide, which increases the cytoplasmic pH in the micro environment around the organism, hence protects the bacteria from gastric acid
- The H+-gated urea channel(Urel) regulates the urea entry into cytoplasm of H. pylori cell which helps in quick adaptation of organism to acidic environment.[14]
- Ammonia and ammonium chloride inhibit the growth of gastric cells in S phase, leading to gastric mucosal atrophy[15]
C. Bacterial Virulence factors
The cytotoxin-associated gene (Cag) pathogenecity island (PAI) and cytotoxin-associated gene A (cagA)
- Large amounts of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-8 are expressed in H. pylori strains with CagPaI.
- The protein CagA is encoded by CagA gene and type IV bacterial secretion system (T4SS) is encoded by CagPAI.
- Type IV bacterial secretion apparatus helps in translocation of CagA into host target cells and stimulates epithelial cell pro-inflammatory cytokine expression and gastric inflammation
- CagA undergoes phosphorylation in host target cells
The following are the bacterial virulence factors associated with H. pylori pathogenesis:
CagA
- The CagA protein is encoded by CagA gene and is translocated to epithelial cell cytosol through type IV bacterial secretion apparatus.
- It is activated by phosphorylation on tyrosine residues by host scr kinases.[16][17]
- After phosphorylation, it interacts with SHP-2 and activates MAP kinase signalling leading to abnormal proliferation of gastric epithelial cells.
- The CagA protein also binds to Crk proteins leading to disruption of epithelial cell tight junctions and tissue damage.
- The type and number of CagA tyrosine phosphorylation motifs differ in the individual strains.
- Strains having CagA with more phosphorylation motifs cause atrophy and gastric carcinoma than strains with fewer motifs.[18][19][20]
- The IL-8 secretion is independent of tyrosine phosphorylation of CagA but dependent on the region having phosphorylation motifs.
Outer inflammatory protein A (OipA)
- OipA strain is associated with duodenal ulceration and gastric cancer[21][22]
- This protein is regulated by slipped strand mispairing[23]
Duodenal ulcer promoting gene A (dupA)
This gene is associated with duodenal ulceration but appeared to protect from gastric cancer in patients from columbia, Japan and South Korea.[24]
Blood group antigen binding adhesion A (BabA)
- BabA2 gene encodes the active form of BabA which binds to fucosylated Le antigens which are expressed on gastric epithelial cells.[25]
- BabA increases the adhesion of H. pylori to epithelial cells which leading to increased delivery of factors associated with inflammation.
- Active form of BabA is associated with increased association of Cag+ strains with gastric cancer and duodenal ulceration.[26]
The RNA polymerase β-subunit (RpoB)
- The RpoBThr is associated with increased secretion of IL-8 from MKN45 cells compared to RpoBAla.
- H. pylori strains possessing RpoBThr is seen in 67.6% of East Asians and hence associated with increased risk of development of more severe gastroduodenal diseases.[27]
The vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA)
- VacA is an exotoxin which is associated with cellular damage rather than pro-inflammatory cytokine release.[28]
- The active forms of VacA are associated with increased risk of gastric carcinoma
2. Host genetic susceptibility
The risk of gastric carcinoma increases due to :[29][30]
- The stable polymorphisms of several cytokine gens
- Increased expression of IL-1β or tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF)α
- The reduced expression of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 due to single nucleotide polymorphism
A.The immune response to H.Pylori
The innate immune response
- H. pylori colonization of the gastric mucosa is associated with innate host defense mechanisms leading to the expression of pro-inflammatory and anti-bacterial factors.[31][32]The expression of these factors results in gastritis.
- The severity of the H. pylori disease and gastric carcinogenesis is associated with the innate immune response.
- The innate immune mechanisms are dependent on the Nod1, which is a pattern recognition receptors (PRR) stimulated by cag+ strains.[33]
- Defensins are the anti-microbial peptides which are secreted as a response to H. pylori infection. Elevated levels of human β defensin 2 (hBD2) and the neutrophil-derived alpha defensins are detected in gastric juice of infected patients.[34]
- The infected gastric epithelial cells have increased expression of hBD2, hBD3, angiogenin, adrenomedullin, and the human cationic antimicrobial peptide 18 (LL-37).[31]
- Due to high secretion of cytokines and chemokines by the gastric epithelial cells, there is increased migration of granulocytes, lymphocytes and monocytes leading to severe inflammatory pathology.[35]
- The H. pylori after phagocytosis survive inside the phagosome and all phagosomes fuse to become megasomes. This provides a protected intracellular cavity in the macrophage, contributing to the persistence of infection.[36][37]
The acquired immune response
- H. pylori stimulates the production of mucosal and systemic IgA and IgG antibodies which induces local inflammation and damage by cross reacting with the parietal cell H+,K+-ATPase and antigens on gastric epithelial cells.[38][39]
- The T-helper 1 (Th1) response in the gastric mucosa dominates the T-cell response to H. pylori. The Th1 cells release type 1 cytokines (IFNγ) which activate macrophages resulting in secretion of pro-inflammatory factors (TNFα, IL-12 and IL-18) and increase bactericidal activity compared to those activated by Th2 cytokines. The severity of gastritis depends on the number of IFNγ-secreting cells in the infected gastric mucosa.[40][41][42][43]
- H. pylori suppress immune and inflammatory responses by eliciting Treg (T-cell regulatory) responses and thus maintain chronic colonization. They also suppress human memory T-cells in response to H. pylori antigens.[44]
B. Hormonal changes and acid homeostasis changes
Somatostatin and gastrin changes
- The inflammatory mediators produced due to H. pylori infection, including nitric oxide suppress somatostatin release. The infection is also associated with reduced numbers of somatostatin-producing D cells in the stomach.[45][46][47]
- The gastrin production from G cells is increased due to direct stimulatory action of cytokines and suppression of somatostatin.
- Hypergastrinemia stimulates MAP kinase which results in up-regulation of the cox-2 gene which is potentially has potentially pro-oncogenic effect. It may also leads to gastric atrophy by up-regulation of the Reg protein.[48][48]
- Hypergastrinemia leads to excess acid production leading to dyspepsia.
3. Environmental cofactors
The environmental co-factors associated with H. pylori are:
- Age at infection
- Degree of crowding
- Smoking
- Malnutrition
- High salt intake
- Vitamin deficiency
Gross pathology
On gross pathology, H. pylori infection is associated with thickened gastric folds and erythema.[49]
Microscopic pathology
The microscopic pathology depends on the the following stages:[50]
Acute H.pylori infection
- Most of the initial H. pylori colonization occur during childhood but new infections may occur in adults occasionally.[51][52]
- Associated with transient profound gastric hypochlorhydria
Microscopic pathology
- Surface epithelial degeneration
- Heavy neutrophilic infiltration in lamina propria of antrum and corpus and infiltrating the foveolar and surface epithelium
- Gradual infiltration of other inflammatory cells, especially lymphocytes
Chronic H.pylori infection
- Chronic antral predominant inflammation:
- Associated with increased stimulated acid production leading to duodenal ulceration
- Chronic corpus-predominant or pangastritis
- Associated with reduced acid production
- Predisposes to gastric ulceration and gastric adenocarcinoma
Microscopic pathology
- Epithelial degeneration
- Neutrophil infiltration
- predominantly lymphocyte, monocyte and/ or plasma cell infiltration in the superficial lamina propria
- Glandular atrophy
- Intestinal metaplasia
- Lymphoid tissue aggregates
Pathogenesis of H.pylori Infection
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