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Helicobacter pylori genotyping in gastric adenocarcinoma and MALT lymphoma by multiplex PCR analyses of paraffin wax embedded tissues
  1. C I Koehler1,
  2. M B Mues1,
  3. H P Dienes1,
  4. J Kriegsmann2,
  5. P Schirmacher1,
  6. M Odenthal1
  1. 1Institute for Pathology, University of Cologne, 50924 Cologne, Germany
  2. 2Institute for Pathology, University of Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr M Odenthal, Institut fuer Pathologie, Joseph Stelzmann Str. 9, 50924 Koeln, Germany;
 m.odenthal{at}uni-koeln.de

Abstract

Background: Gastric infection with Helicobacter pylori is the major cause of chronic active gastritis and is associated with the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer and gastric carcinoma. Gastric mucosal damage involves both host and H pylori dependent factors, such as the presence of the cag pathogenicity island and allelic variations of the vacA and iceA genes.

Aims: To evaluate the association of these virulence factors with the development of gastric malignancies, a retrospective study was performed on archived tissue routinely obtained for diagnostic histopathology.

Methods: DNA was extracted from formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded gastric tissue sections of 93 patients with chronic active gastritis (n = 39), adenocarcinoma (n = 28), or mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma (n = 24). The extracted DNA was used to perform a polymerase chain reaction based, simultaneous analysis of the following: (1) cagA status, (2) allelic variation of the iceA genes (iceA1, iceA2), allelic variation of the signal peptide (s1a, s1b, s2) and the midregion (m1, m1a, m2) of the vacA gene.

Results: The iceA1 gene showed a 3.6 fold and the vacA s1a variant a 4.2 fold higher prevalence in gastric adenocarcinoma than in gastritis. The combined presence of both the vacA s1a and iceA1 genes had a 5.6 fold higher frequency in adenocarcinoma. The vacA m2 allele was the predominant subtype in MALT lymphoma and the combination of the vacA m2 subtypes with the vacA s1 and the iceA1 variants occurred in MALT lymphoma nearly five times more often than in chronic active gastritis.

Conclusions: Certain H pylori subtype combinations possess a differentiating and predictive value for the development of gastric adenocarcinoma and MALT lymphoma.

  • Helicobacter pylori
  • chronic active gastritis
  • gastric adenocarcinoma
  • mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma
  • virulence factors
  • cag pathogenicity island
  • cagA status
  • iceA
  • multiplex analysis
  • GA, chronic active gastritis
  • GC, gastric cancer
  • MALT, mucosa associated lymphoid tissue
  • OR, odds ratio
  • PCR, polymerase chain reaction
  • PUD, peptic ulcer disease
  • TAE, Tris/acetate/EDTA
  • VacA, vacuolating cytotoxin

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Footnotes

  • The first two authors contributed equally to this work.