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Title: A hypermorphic epithelial β-catenin mutation facilitates intestinal tumorigenesis in mice in response to compounding WNT-pathway mutations
Austin Authors: Buchert, Michael;Rohde, Franziska;Eissmann, Moritz;Tebbutt, Niall;Williams, Ben;Tan, Chin Wee;Owen, Alexander;Hirokawa, Yumiko;Gnann, Alexandra;Orend, Gertraud;Orner, Gayle;Dashwood, Rod H.;Heath, Joan K;Ernst, Matthias ;Janssen, Klaus-Peter
Affiliation: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
School of Cancer Medicine, La Trobe University, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
Department of Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
Inserm U1109, MN3T team, Strasbourg, France
LabEx Medalis, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg (FMTS), Strasbourg, France
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Texas A&M Health Science Center, Center for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention, Houston, TX, USA
Issue Date: Nov-2015
Date: 2015-08-06
Publication information: Disease Models & Mechanisms 2015; 8(11): 1361-1373
Abstract: Activation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway occurs in the vast majority of colorectal cancers. However, the outcome of the disease varies markedly from individual to individual, even within the same tumor stage. This heterogeneity is governed to a great extent by the genetic make-up of individual tumors and the combination of oncogenic mutations. In order to express throughout the intestinal epithelium a degradation-resistant β-catenin (Ctnnb1), which lacks the first 131 amino acids, we inserted an epitope-tagged ΔN(1-131)-β-catenin-encoding cDNA as a knock-in transgene into the endogenous gpA33 gene locus in mice. The resulting gpA33(ΔN-Bcat) mice showed an increase in the constitutive Wnt/β-catenin pathway activation that shifts the cell fate towards the Paneth cell lineage in pre-malignant intestinal epithelium. Furthermore, 19% of all heterozygous and 37% of all homozygous gpA33(ΔN-Bcat) mice spontaneously developed aberrant crypt foci and adenomatous polyps, at frequencies and latencies akin to those observed in sporadic colon cancer in humans. Consistent with this, the Wnt target genes, MMP7 and Tenascin-C, which are most highly expressed in benign human adenomas and early tumor stages, were upregulated in pre-malignant tissue of gpA33(ΔN-Bcat) mice, but those Wnt target genes associated with excessive proliferation (i.e. Cdnn1, myc) were not. We also detected diminished expression of membrane-associated α-catenin and increased intestinal permeability in gpA33(ΔN-Bcat) mice in challenge conditions, providing a potential explanation for the observed mild chronic intestinal inflammation and increased susceptibility to azoxymethane and mutant Apc-dependent tumorigenesis. Collectively, our data indicate that epithelial expression of ΔN(1-131)-β-catenin in the intestine creates an inflammatory microenvironment and co-operates with other mutations in the Wnt/β-catenin pathway to facilitate and promote tumorigenesis.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/16711
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.019844
Journal: Disease Models & Mechanisms
PubMed URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26398937
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Colorectal cancer
GpA33
Inflammation
Mouse models
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