cancers Article Intracellular Porphyromonas gingivalis Promotes the Tumorigenic Behavior of Pancreatic Carcinoma Cells JebaMercy Gnanasekaran 1, Adi Binder Gallimidi 1,2, Elias Saba 1, Karthikeyan Pandi 1, 1 2 1 1 1 Luba Eli Berchoer , Esther Hermano , Sarah Angabo , Hasna0a Makkawi , Arin Khashan , 1 2, , 1, , Alaa Daoud , Michael Elkin * y and Gabriel Nussbaum * y 1 The Institute of Dental Sciences, Hebrew University, Hadassah Faculty of Dental Medicine, Jerusalem 9112102, Israel;
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[email protected] (G.N.); Tel.: +972-2-6776782 (M.E.); +972-2-6758581 (G.N.) Equal contribution (these authors share the senior authorship). y Received: 2 July 2020; Accepted: 14 August 2020; Published: 18 August 2020 Abstract: Porphyromonas gingivalis is a member of the dysbiotic oral microbiome associated with oral inflammation and periodontal disease. Intriguingly, epidemiological studies link P. gingivalis to an increased risk of pancreatic cancer. Given that oral bacteria are detected in human pancreatic cancer, and both mouse and human pancreata harbor microbiota, we explored the involvement of P. gingivalis in pancreatic tumorigenesis using cell lines and a xenograft model.