date:Feb 22, 2019
ll mutations, which may grow into tumors. Colibactin is present in the human GI tract, and is linked to the development of colon cancer.
Balbo said, This is important because it is the first time weve used this method to identify exactly how a toxin with an unknown chemical structure is interacting with and modifying DNA.
The researchers compared the colon DNA of mice exposed to E. coli that produce this toxin to the colon DNA of mice exposed to E. coli that do not produce the toxin. They saw