Bibliographic citations
Lopez, K., Ildefonso, A. (2024). Determinación in silico de la presencia de ADN de Streptococcus pneumoniae en ADN genómico de tejido canceroso de pulmón [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/15149
Lopez, K., Ildefonso, A. Determinación in silico de la presencia de ADN de Streptococcus pneumoniae en ADN genómico de tejido canceroso de pulmón []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/15149
@misc{renati/911144,
title = "Determinación in silico de la presencia de ADN de Streptococcus pneumoniae en ADN genómico de tejido canceroso de pulmón",
author = "Ildefonso Raymundo, Aranxa Leny",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2024"
}
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a Gram positive bacteria present in the nasopharynx, which can cause pneumonia and other respiratory infections. Several studies suggest its association with lung cancer; however, it is unknown whether it promotes lung carcinogenesis or is associated with the tumor microenvironment. The interaction of the PscC protein of S. pneumoniae with the PAFR receptor, in the epithelial cells of the respiratory tract, activates signaling pathways that unleash the inflammatory response, which contributes to lung carcinogenesis. In addition, their presence in situ in non-small cell lung cancer tissue (NSCLC) samples has been demonstrated, through ddPCR. Interest in finding out whether S. pneumoniae is an etiological agent of lung cancer has led to research into the underlying mechanisms of infection associated with the promotion of carcinogenesis. Plausible mechanisms would involve direct insertion of S. pneumoniae DNA into the human genome, which would cause genomic instability, a condition that precedes cancer. This has only been investigated in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, another intracellular bacteria widely associated with lung cancer. In fact, the presence of a transposon of M. tuberculosis in the genome of neoplastic cells of patients with NSCLC has been 3 identified. Such insertion causes the interruption of a proto-oncogene, which causes its activation to the oncogenic version, with the consequent activation of carcinogenesis. S. pneumoniae like M. tuberculosis, is an intracellular bacterium, which uses endocytosis to evade the immune response. This mechanism could end up in DNA integration into cancer cells. In this project, we propose to determine whether there is S. pneumoniae DNA integrated into the DNA of lung cancer cells, using bioinformatics tools and genome databases of patients with this neoplasia.
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