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Moens U, Prezioso C, Pietropaolo V. Functional Domains of the Early Proteins and Experimental and Epidemiological Studies Suggest a Role for the Novel Human Polyomaviruses in Cancer. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:834368. [PMID: 35250950 PMCID: PMC8894888 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.834368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As their name indicates, polyomaviruses (PyVs) can induce tumors. Mouse PyV, hamster PyV and raccoon PyV have been shown to cause tumors in their natural host. During the last 30 years, 15 PyVs have been isolated from humans. From these, Merkel cell PyV is classified as a Group 2A carcinogenic pathogen (probably carcinogenic to humans), whereas BKPyV and JCPyV are class 2B (possibly carcinogenic to humans) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Although the other PyVs recently detected in humans (referred to here as novel HPyV; nHPyV) share many common features with PyVs, including the viral oncoproteins large tumor antigen and small tumor antigen, as their role in cancer is questioned. This review discusses whether the nHPyVs may play a role in cancer based on predicted and experimentally proven functions of their early proteins in oncogenic processes. The functional domains that mediate the oncogenic properties of early proteins of known PyVs, that can cause cancer in their natural host or animal models, have been well characterized and we examined whether these functional domains are conserved in the early proteins of the nHPyVs and presented experimental evidence that these conserved domains are functional. Furthermore, we reviewed the literature describing the detection of nHPyV in human tumors.
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- Ugo Moens
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Biology, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- *Correspondence: Ugo Moens,
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- Microbiology of Chronic Neuro-Degenerative Pathologies, IRCSS San Raffaele Roma, Rome, Italy
- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- Valeria Pietropaolo,
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Wen VW, MacKenzie KL. Modeling human endothelial cell transformation in vascular neoplasias. Dis Model Mech 2014; 6:1066-79. [PMID: 24046386 PMCID: PMC3759327 DOI: 10.1242/dmm.012674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Endothelial cell (EC)-derived neoplasias range from benign hemangioma to aggressive metastatic angiosarcoma, which responds poorly to current treatments and has a very high mortality rate. The development of treatments that are more effective for these disorders will be expedited by insight into the processes that promote abnormal proliferation and malignant transformation of human ECs. The study of primary endothelial malignancy has been limited by the rarity of the disease; however, there is potential for carefully characterized EC lines and animal models to play a central role in the discovery, development and testing of molecular targeted therapies for vascular neoplasias. This review describes molecular alterations that have been identified in EC-derived neoplasias, as well as the processes that underpin the immortalization and tumorigenic conversion of ECs. Human EC lines, established through the introduction of defined genetic elements or by culture of primary tumor tissue, are catalogued and discussed in relation to their relevance as models of vascular neoplasia.
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- Victoria W Wen
- Cancer Cell Development Group, Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research, Lowy Cancer Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Randwick, NSW, Australia
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Smith HW, Muller WJ. Transgenic mouse models--a seminal breakthrough in oncogene research. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2013; 2013:1099-1108. [PMID: 24298026 DOI: 10.1101/pdb.top069765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Transgenic mouse models are an integral part of modern cancer research, providing a versatile and powerful means of studying tumor initiation and progression, metastasis, and therapy. The present repertoire of these models is very diverse, with a wide range of strategies used to induce tumorigenesis by expressing dominant-acting oncogenes or disrupting the function of tumor-suppressor genes, often in a highly tissue-specific manner. Much of the current technology used in the creation and characterization of transgenic mouse models of cancer will be discussed in depth elsewhere. However, to gain a complete appreciation and understanding of these complex models, it is important to review the history of the field. Transgenic mouse models of cancer evolved as a new and, compared with the early cell-culture-based techniques, more physiologically relevant approach for studying the properties and transforming capacities of oncogenes. Here, we will describe early transgenic mouse models of cancer based on tissue-specific expression of oncogenes and discuss their impact on the development of this still rapidly growing field.
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- Harvey W Smith
- Department of Biochemistry and Goodman Cancer Research Center, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A3, Canada
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Kao S, Mo J, Baird A, Eliceiri BP. Basic fibroblast growth factor in an animal model of spontaneous mammary tumor progression. Oncol Rep 2012; 27:1807-14. [PMID: 22407271 DOI: 10.3892/or.2012.1710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2011] [Accepted: 02/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Although basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF2) was the first pro-angiogenic molecule discovered, it has numerous activities on the growth and differentiation of non-vascular cell types. FGF2 is both stimulatory and inhibitory, depending on the cell type evaluated, the experimental design used and the context in which it is tested. Here, we investigated the effects of manipulating endogenous FGF2 on the development of mammary cancer to determine whether its endogenous contribution in vivo is pro- or anti-tumorigenic. Specifically, we examined the effects of FGF2 gene dosing in a cross between a spontaneous breast tumor model (PyVT+ mice) and FGF2-/- (FGF KO) mice. Using these mice, the onset and progression of mammary tumors was determined. As predicted, female FGF2 WT mice developed mammary tumors starting around 60 days after birth and by 80 days, 100% of FGF2 WT female mice had mammary tumors. In contrast, 80% of FGF2 KO female mice had no palpable tumors until nearly three weeks later (85 days) at times when 100% of the WT cohort was tumor positive. All FGF KO mice were tumor-bearing by 115 days. When we compared the onset of mammary tumor development and the tumor progression curves between FGF het and FGF KO mice, we observed a difference, which suggested a gene dosing effect. Analysis of the tumors demonstrated that there were significant differences in tumor size depending on FGF2 status. The delay in tumor onset supports a functional role for FGF2 in mammary tumor progression, but argues against an essential role for FGF2 in overall mammary tumor progression.
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- Steven Kao
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, MC 8236, San Diego, CA 92103, USA
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Inhibition of hemangioma development in a syngeneic mouse model correlates with bcl-2 suppression and the inhibition of Akt kinase activity. Angiogenesis 2011; 15:131-9. [DOI: 10.1007/s10456-011-9248-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2011] [Accepted: 12/17/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Fluck MM, Schaffhausen BS. Lessons in signaling and tumorigenesis from polyomavirus middle T antigen. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2009; 73:542-63, Table of Contents. [PMID: 19721090 PMCID: PMC2738132 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00009-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The small DNA tumor viruses have provided a very long-lived source of insights into many aspects of the life cycle of eukaryotic cells. In recent years, the emphasis has been on cancer-related signaling. Here we review murine polyomavirus middle T antigen, its mechanisms, and its downstream pathways of transformation. We concentrate on the MMTV-PyMT transgenic mouse, one of the most studied models of breast cancer, which permits the examination of in situ tumor progression from hyperplasia to metastasis.
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- Michele M Fluck
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Interdepartmental Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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Bhandarkar SS, Jaconi M, Fried LE, Bonner MY, Lefkove B, Govindarajan B, Perry BN, Parhar R, Mackelfresh J, Sohn A, Stouffs M, Knaus U, Yancopoulos G, Reiss Y, Benest AV, Augustin HG, Arbiser JL. Fulvene-5 potently inhibits NADPH oxidase 4 and blocks the growth of endothelial tumors in mice. J Clin Invest 2009; 119:2359-65. [PMID: 19620773 DOI: 10.1172/jci33877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2007] [Accepted: 05/27/2009] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Hemangiomas are the most common type of tumor in infants. As they are endothelial cell-derived neoplasias, their growth can be regulated by the autocrine-acting Tie2 ligand angiopoietin 2 (Ang2). Using an experimental model of human hemangiomas, in which polyoma middle T-transformed brain endothelial (bEnd) cells are grafted subcutaneously into nude mice, we compared hemangioma growth originating from bEnd cells derived from wild-type, Ang2+/-, and Ang2-/- mice. Surprisingly, Ang2-deficient bEnd cells formed endothelial tumors that grew rapidly and were devoid of the typical cavernous architecture of slow-growing Ang2-expressing hemangiomas, while Ang2+/- cells were greatly impaired in their in vivo growth. Gene array analysis identified a strong downregulation of NADPH oxidase 4 (Nox4) in Ang2+/- cells. Correspondingly, lentiviral silencing of Nox4 in an Ang2-sufficient bEnd cell line decreased Ang2 mRNA levels and greatly impaired hemangioma growth in vivo. Using a structure-based approach, we identified fulvenes as what we believe to be a novel class of Nox inhibitors. We therefore produced and began the initial characterization of fulvenes as potential Nox inhibitors, finding that fulvene-5 efficiently inhibited Nox activity in vitro and potently inhibited hemangioma growth in vivo. In conclusion, the present study establishes Nox4 as a critical regulator of hemangioma growth and identifies fulvenes as a potential class of candidate inhibitor to therapeutically interfere with Nox function.
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- Sulochana S Bhandarkar
- Department of Dermatology and Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Xu Q, Chen W, Wang Z, Zheng J, Zhang Z. Mice transgenic with SV40-late-promoter-driven Polyomavirus Middle T oncogene exclusively develop hemangiomas. Transgenic Res 2008; 18:399-406. [PMID: 19067215 DOI: 10.1007/s11248-008-9232-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2008] [Accepted: 11/11/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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In order to develop a model system of infantile hemangioma, transgenic mice were developed carrying the Polyomavirus Middle T (PyMT) gene driven by the SV40 late promoter. From the 520 fertilized eggs surviving microinjection, there were 25 live births. Three of these showed the hemangioma phenotype and carried and expressed the PyMT gene; the remaining descendants were normal. The tumors showed abnormal vascular proliferation with cavernous hemangioma-like structures in the skin surface, tongue, ear mucosa and gastric mucosal tissue in the transgenic mice with hemangioma phenotype. Immunohistochemical staining for Ki-67 was negative, showing the tumors were hemangiomas rather than angiosarcomas. None of the PyMT transgenic mice survived beyond 4 weeks. Previously reported PyMT transgenic mice under the control of various promoters induce many tumor types including hemangiomas. PyMT driven by the SV40 late promoter is an improved model system because it only induces hemangiomas. However, it is limited by the post-natal lethality. Thus, conditional variants of this model system would be desirable.
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- Qin Xu
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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Schaffhausen BS, Roberts TM. Lessons from polyoma middle T antigen on signaling and transformation: A DNA tumor virus contribution to the war on cancer. Virology 2008; 384:304-16. [PMID: 19022468 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.09.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2008] [Accepted: 09/30/2008] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Middle T antigen (MT) is the principal oncogene of murine polyomavirus. Its study has led to the discovery of the roles of tyrosine kinase and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling in mammalian growth control and transformation. MT is necessary for viral transformation in tissue culture cells and tumorigenesis in animals. When expressed alone as a transgene, MT causes tumors in a wide variety of tissues. It has no known catalytic activity, but rather acts by assembling cellular signal transduction molecules. Protein phosphatase 2A, protein tyrosine kinases of the src family, PI3K, phospholipase Cgamma1 as well as the Shc/Grb2 adaptors are all assembled on MT. Their activation sets off a series of signaling cascades. Analyses of virus mutants as well as transgenic animals have demonstrated that the effects of a given signal depend not only tissue type, but on the genetic background of the host animal. There remain many opportunities as we seek a full molecular understanding of MT and apply some of its lessons to human cancer.
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- Brian S Schaffhausen
- Department of Biochemistry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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Khan ZA, Boscolo E, Picard A, Psutka S, Melero-Martin JM, Bartch TC, Mulliken JB, Bischoff J. Multipotential stem cells recapitulate human infantile hemangioma in immunodeficient mice. J Clin Invest 2008; 118:2592-9. [PMID: 18535669 DOI: 10.1172/jci33493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2007] [Accepted: 04/23/2008] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Infantile hemangioma is a benign endothelial tumor composed of disorganized blood vessels. It exhibits a unique life cycle of rapid postnatal growth followed by slow regression to a fibrofatty residuum. Here, we have reported the isolation of multipotential stem cells from hemangioma tissue that give rise to hemangioma-like lesions in immunodeficient mice. Cells were isolated based on expression of the stem cell marker CD133 and expanded from single cells as clonal populations. The CD133-selected cells generated human blood vessels 7 days after implantation in immunodeficient mice. Cell retrieval experiments showed the cells could again form vessels when transplanted into secondary recipients. The human vessels expressed GLUT-1 and merosin, immunodiagnostic markers for infantile hemangioma. Two months after implantation, the number of blood vessels diminished and human adipocytes became evident. Lentiviral expression of GFP was used to confirm that the hemangioma-derived cells formed the blood vessels and adipocytes in the immunodeficient mice. Thus, when transplanted into immunodeficient mice, hemangioma-derived cells recapitulated the unique evolution of infantile hemangioma--the formation of blood vessels followed by involution to fatty tissue. In summary, this study identifies a stem cell as the cellular origin of infantile hemangioma and describes for what we believe is the first time an animal model for this common tumor of infancy.
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- Zia A Khan
- Vascular Biology Program and Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Sausville J, Molinolo AA, Cheng X, Frampton J, Takebe N, Gutkind JS, Feldman RA. RCAS/SCL-TVA animal model allows targeted delivery of polyoma middle T oncogene to vascular endothelial progenitors in vivo and results in hemangioma development. Clin Cancer Res 2008; 14:3948-55. [PMID: 18559617 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-07-5152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE To recapitulate the generation of cancer stem cells in the context of an intact animal using a retroviral vector capable of in vivo delivery of oncogenes to primitive endothelial and hematopoietic stem cells. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN Targeting of these progenitors was achieved using transgenic mice in which the avian TVA retroviral receptor was placed under the control of the stem cell leukemia (scl/tal-1) gene promoter and SCL +19 enhancer. RESULTS Injection of an avian retrovirus encoding polyoma middle T (PyMT), an oncogene that transforms endothelial cells, caused rapid lethality in all SCL-TVA mice but not in control TVA(-) littermates. The infected animals exhibited hemorrhagic foci in several organs. Histopathologic analysis confirmed the presence of hemangiomas and the endothelial origin of the PyMT-transformed cells. Surprisingly, the transformed endothelial cells contained readily detectable numbers of TVA(+) cells. By contrast, normal blood vessels had very few of these cells. The presence of TVA(+) cells in the lesions suggests that the cells originally infected by PyMT retained stem cell characteristics. Further analysis showed that the tumor cells exhibited activation of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt and S6/mammalian target of rapamycin pathways, suggesting a mechanism used by PyMT to transform endothelial progenitors in vivo. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that this experimental system can specifically deliver oncogenes to vascular endothelial progenitors in vivo and cause a fatal neoplastic disease. This animal model should allow the generation of endothelial cancer stem cells in the natural environment of an immunocompetent animal, thereby enabling the recapitulation of genetic alterations that are responsible for the initiation and progression of human malignancies of endothelial origin.
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- Justin Sausville
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Polyomavirus middle T antigen induces the transcription of osteopontin, a gene important for the migration of transformed cells. J Virol 2008; 82:4946-54. [PMID: 18337582 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.02650-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Middle T antigen (MT) is the principal oncoprotein of murine polyomavirus. Experiments on the acute immediate effects of MT expression on cellular RNA levels showed that expression of osteopontin (OPN) was strongly induced by MT expression. Osteopontin is a protein known to be associated with cancer. It has a role in tumor progression and invasion. Protein analysis confirmed that MT induced the secretion of OPN into the extracellular medium. Expression of antisense OPN RNA had no effect on the growth of MT-transformed cells. However, it had a strong effect on the ability of MT transformants to migrate or to fill a wound. Analysis of MT mutants implicated both the SHC and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathways in OPN induction. Reporter assays showed that MT regulated the OPN promoter through two of its PEA3 (polyoma enhancer activator 3) sites. As critical PEA3 sites are also part of the polyomavirus enhancer, the same signaling important for viral replication also contributes to virally induced metastatic potential.
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Infantile haemangioma is the most common tumour of infancy, yet the origin of these lesions remains controversial and the predictable life cycle is poorly understood. Much new information on infantile haemangiomas has emerged over the past decade, but experts continue to debate fundamental features, including cell of origin, nonrandom distribution, and mechanisms regulating the sometimes explosive growth and slow involution. The development of useful laboratory models has been difficult, in turn restricting the development of treatment options available to the clinician. Despite this, new research and creative thinking has spawned several hypotheses on the origin of these tumours and their interesting clinical behaviour, including suggestions of an intrinsic defect in local endothelial cells, a contribution of circulating endothelial progenitors or haemangioblasts, embolisation of shed placental cells and developmental field defects. While no single hypothesis seems to describe all features of infantile haemangioma, continued research seeks to integrate these ideas, create a better understanding of these important tumours and bring new treatments to the clinic.
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Vervoort VS, Lu M, Valencia F, Lesperance J, Breier G, Oshima R, Pasquale EB. A novel Flk1-TVA transgenic mouse model for gene delivery to angiogenic vasculature. Transgenic Res 2007; 17:403-15. [DOI: 10.1007/s11248-007-9156-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2007] [Accepted: 10/26/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Hanahan D, Wagner EF, Palmiter RD. The origins of oncomice: a history of the first transgenic mice genetically engineered to develop cancer. Genes Dev 2007; 21:2258-70. [PMID: 17875663 DOI: 10.1101/gad.1583307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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This perspective describes the concurrent development in the 1980s of the first transgenic mice genetically engineered to express dominant oncogenes, involving independent researchers who were largely unaware of each other's strategies and progress. We relate the experimental designs, the pitfalls and challenges encountered, and the eventual success in developing distinctive mouse models of cancer, wherein tumors arose heritably in various organs. These early oncomice have produced a wealth of new knowledge, become topics of intellectual property, and spawned a vibrant field of cancer research that is revealing mechanisms of tumorigenesis and suggesting new therapeutic strategies for treating the human disease.
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- Douglas Hanahan
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Diabetes Center, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
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Tang Y, Liu W, Yu S, Wang Y, Peng Q, Xiong Z, Wang Y, Wei T. A novel in vivo model of human hemangioma: xenograft of human hemangioma tissue on nude mice. Plast Reconstr Surg 2007; 120:869-878. [PMID: 17805113 DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000277661.49581.c9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Experimental models of human infantile hemangiomas are needed, although none of the current ones is ideal in representing the natural development of hemangioma. In this article, the authors present a nude mice model of human hemangioma with serial morphologic findings on grafts. METHODS A specimen of rapidly growing hemangioma tissue was obtained surgically from a 2-month-old boy and was cut into 96 pieces, which were implanted subcutaneously into nude mice, six pieces each. During the 6-month experimental period, gross view, hematoxylin and eosin staining, double immunofluorescent labeling with mouse antihuman CD31 and fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled rat antimouse CD34, and transmission electron microscopic observation were performed. RESULTS Eighty-one of the 96 grafts (84.4 percent) survived and grew during the second month to 3 to 4 months after transplantation, followed by gradual involution. Histologic examination showed cellular edema, degeneration, and necrosis in the early stage. From approximately 30 days, cellular density increased and karyokinesis was identified at 45 days. At 2 months, the grafts were composed mainly of hemangioma tissue and signs of involution appeared. Thereafter, signs of involution turned significant and the grafts were replaced with fibrofatty tissue. It was confirmed through double immunofluorescent labeling that the chief cellular components were endothelial cells of human origin. Findings on ultrastructural investigation were concordant with those on light microscopic observation. CONCLUSIONS With human hemangioma tissue implanted into nude mice, an animal model was established successfully. The development of grafts after ischemia resembled the natural course of human infantile hemangioma.
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- Yunman Tang
- Chengdu, People's Republic of China From the Department of Pediatric Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University
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Perry BN, Govindarajan B, Bhandarkar SS, Knaus UG, Valo M, Sturk C, Carrillo CO, Sohn A, Cerimele F, Dumont D, Losken A, Williams J, Brown LF, Tan X, Ioffe E, Yancopoulos GD, Arbiser JL. Pharmacologic blockade of angiopoietin-2 is efficacious against model hemangiomas in mice. J Invest Dermatol 2006; 126:2316-22. [PMID: 16741507 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Hemangioma of infancy is the most common neoplasm of childhood. While hemangiomas are classic examples of angiogenesis, the angiogenic factors responsible for hemangiomas are not fully understood. Previously, we demonstrated that malignant endothelial tumors arise in the setting of autocrine loops involving vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its major mitogenic receptor vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2. Hemangiomas of infancy differ from malignant endothelial tumors in that they usually regress, or can be induced to regress by pharmacologic means, suggesting that angiogenesis in hemangiomas differs fundamentally from that of malignant endothelial tumors. Here, we demonstrate constitutive activation of the endothelial tie-2 receptor in human hemangioma of infancy and, using a murine model of hemangioma, bEnd.3 cells; we show that bEnd.3 hemangiomas produce both angiopoietin-2 (ang-2) and its receptor, tie-2, in vivo. We also demonstrate that inhibition of tie-2 signaling with a soluble tie-2 receptor decreases bEnd.3 hemangioma growth in vivo. The efficacy of tie-2 blockade suggests that either tie-2 activation or ang-2 may be required for in vivo growth. To address this issue, we used tie-2-deficient bEnd.3 hemangioma cells, which, surprisingly, were fully proficient in in vivo growth. Previous studies from our laboratory and others have implicated reactive oxygen-generating nox enzymes in the angiogenic switch, so we examined the effect of nox inhibitors on ang-2 production in vitro and on bEnd.3 tumor growth in vivo. We then inhibited ang-2 production pharmacologically using novel inhibitors of nox enzymes and found that this treatment nearly abolished bEnd.3 hemangioma growth in vivo. Signal-transduction blockade targeting ang-2 production may be useful in the treatment of human hemangiomas in vivo.
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- Betsy N Perry
- Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Rothermel TA, Engelhardt B, Sheibani N. Polyoma virus middle-T-transformed PECAM-1 deficient mouse brain endothelial cells proliferate rapidly in culture and form hemangiomas in mice. J Cell Physiol 2005; 202:230-9. [PMID: 15389523 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.20114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Wild-type mouse brain endothelial (bEND) cells transformed with the polyoma virus middle-T proliferate rapidly in culture and form hemangiomas in mice. These cells express high levels of platelet/endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1), a molecule shown to be important during hemangioma formation. In this study, we have examined the ability of polyoma virus middle-T-transformed mouse bEND cells prepared from PECAM-1-/- mice to proliferate in culture and form hemangiomas in mice. We show that these cells express a number of endothelial cell markers and share a similar morphology with PECAM-1+/+ bEND cells. PECAM-1-/- bEND cells exhibit a limited ability to form tubes in Matrigel and rapidly form hemangioma when injected into nude mice, very similar to PECAM-1+/+ bEND cells. These cells, however, have increased proliferation, slower migration, altered endothelial cell adhesion molecule expression, and are less adherent when compared to PECAM-1+/+ bEND cells. Therefore, lack of PECAM-1 expression impacts polyoma middle-T-transformed endothelial cell proliferative, adhesive, and migratory properties without impacting their ability to rapidly form hemangiomas in mice or poorly organize to capillary-like structures in Matrigel.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor/genetics
- Antigens, Viral, Tumor/metabolism
- Biomarkers
- Cadherins/metabolism
- Cell Adhesion/genetics
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Movement/genetics
- Cell Proliferation
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/metabolism
- Cell Transformation, Viral/genetics
- Collagen
- Drug Combinations
- Endothelial Cells/metabolism
- Endothelial Cells/virology
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins/metabolism
- Hemangioma/genetics
- Hemangioma/metabolism
- Hemangioma/virology
- Laminin
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Nude
- Myosin Heavy Chains
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/genetics
- Nonmuscle Myosin Type IIB
- Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/genetics
- Platelet Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/metabolism
- Polyomavirus/metabolism
- Proteoglycans
- Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1/metabolism
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2/metabolism
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- Terri A Rothermel
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53792-4673, USA
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Gordillo GM, Onat D, Stockinger M, Roy S, Atalay M, Beck FM, Sen CK. A key angiogenic role of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in hemangioendothelioma proliferation. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2004; 287:C866-73. [PMID: 15163622 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00238.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Angiomatous lesions are common in infants and children. Hemangioendotheliomas (HE) represent one type of these lesions. Endothelial cell proliferation and the development of vascular/blood cell-filled spaces are inherent in the growth of HE. Therefore, understanding mechanisms that regulate the proliferation of these lesions should provide key insight into mechanisms regulating angiogenesis. A murine model was used to test the significance of monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 in HE proliferation. EOMA cells, a cell line derived from a spontaneously arising murine HE, generate these lesions with 100% efficiency when injected subcutaneously into syngeneic mice. MCP-1 produced by EOMA cells recruit macrophages, which were shown to induce angiogenic behavior in EOMA cells by stimulating transwell migration and inducing sprout formation on type I collagen gels. When EOMA cells were injected into MCP-1(-/-) mice, only 50% of the mice developed tumors, presumably because the low levels of MCP-1 expressed by the injected EOMA cells were enough to overcome any host deficits of this chemokine. When EOMA cells were coinjected with a neutralizing antibody to MCP-1, tumors failed to develop in any of the treated mice, including syngeneic 129P3, C57Bl/6 (wild type), and MCP-1(-/-). These results present the first evidence that MCP-1 is required for HE proliferation and may promote the growth of these lesions by stimulating angiogenic behavior of endothelial cells. This study has produced the first in vivo evidence of a complete response for any neoplasm, specifically a vascular proliferative lesion, to anti-MCP-1 therapy in animals with intact immune systems.
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- Gayle M Gordillo
- Division of Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 410 W. 10th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
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We have developed and tested successfully a general method based on Cre-mediated recombination that can be used for ubiquitous or tissue-specific expression of protein products, including tumor-inducing oncoproteins. Depending on the specificity of a chosen promoter driving cre expression, tumors develop by design in bitransgenic mouse progeny derived by crossing Cre-producing mice with partners carrying a dormant oncogenic transgene (targeted into the 3' noncoding region of the cytoplasmic beta-actin locus) that becomes functional after excision of a 'floxed' DNA segment. To provide proof-of-principle, we have used as models transgenes encoding the polyomavirus middle T antigen (PVMT) and the T antigens of the SV40 early region (SVER). Cre-dependent activation of widespread SVER expression resulted in hyperplasias or invasive tumors affecting particular visceral smooth muscles, whereas Cre-dependent, mammary gland-specific expression of PVMT-induced adenocarcinomas, according to plan. Unexpectedly, we also encountered spontaneous (Cre-independent) oncogene expression occurring as a rare event, which simulates the initiation of sporadic tumors and leads to PVMT-induced hemangiomas and mammary carcinomas or SVER-induced disseminated sarcomas, thus, revealing particular tissue susceptibilities to the actions of these oncoproteins.
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- Katerina Politi
- Department of Genetics and Development, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Atalay M, Gordillo G, Roy S, Rovin B, Bagchi D, Bagchi M, Sen CK. Anti-angiogenic property of edible berry in a model of hemangioma. FEBS Lett 2003; 544:252-7. [PMID: 12782326 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)00509-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Hemangiomas represent a powerful model to study in vivo angiogenesis. Monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1) is known to be responsible for recruiting macrophages to sites of infection or inflammation and facilitate angiogenesis. Recently we have demonstrated that edible berry extracts potently suppress inducible vascular endothelial growth factor expression and in vitro angiogenesis. Comparative analysis of several berry extracts led to the observation that wild blueberry and a berry mix were most effective. Our goal was to follow up on our findings with wild blueberry and the berry mix (OptiBerry). The present work rests on our current finding that these two berry powders significantly inhibit inducible MCP-1 expression in endothelioma cells. Therefore, we sought to examine the effects of wild blueberry and berry mix in an in vivo model of experimental angiogenesis. Reporter studies showed that the berry powders significantly inhibited basal MCP-1 transcription and inducible nuclear factor kappaB transcription. Endothelioma cells pre-treated with berry powders showed diminished ability to form hemangioma. Histological analysis demonstrated markedly decreased infiltration of macrophages in hemangioma of treated mice compared to placebo-treated controls. The current results provide the first in vivo evidence substantiating the anti-angiogenic property of edible berries.
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- Mustafa Atalay
- Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Department of Surgery, 512 Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 473 W. 12th Avenue, Columbus 43210, USA
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Gordillo GM, Atalay M, Roy S, Sen CK. Hemangioma model for in vivo angiogenesis: inducible oxidative stress and MCP-1 expression in EOMA cells. Methods Enzymol 2002; 352:422-32. [PMID: 12125369 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(02)52038-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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- Gayle M Gordillo
- Department of Surgery, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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Gottlieb KA, Villarreal LP. Natural biology of polyomavirus middle T antigen. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2001; 65:288-318 ; second and third pages, table of contents. [PMID: 11381103 PMCID: PMC99028 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.65.2.288-318.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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"It has been commented by someone that 'polyoma' is an adjective composed of a prefix and suffix, with no root between--a meatless linguistic sandwich" (C. J. Dawe). The very name "polyomavirus" is a vague mantel: a name given before our understanding of these viral agents was clear but implying a clear tumor life-style, as noted by the late C. J. Dawe. However, polyomavirus are not by nature tumor-inducing agents. Since it is the purpose of this review to consider the natural function of middle T antigen (MT), encoded by one of the seemingly crucial transforming genes of polyomavirus, we will reconsider and redefine the virus and its MT gene in the context of its natural biology and function. This review was motivated by our recent in vivo analysis of MT function. Using intranasal inoculation of adult SCID mice, we have shown that polyomavirus can replicate with an MT lacking all functions associated with transformation to similar levels to wild-type virus. These observations, along with an almost indistinguishable replication of all MT mutants with respect to wild-type viruses in adult competent mice, illustrate that MT can have a play subtle role in acute replication and persistence. The most notable effect of MT mutants was in infections of newborns, indicating that polyomavirus may be highly adapted to replication in newborn lungs. It is from this context that our current understanding of this well-studied virus and gene is presented.
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- K A Gottlieb
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Biological Sciences II, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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Polyoma virus middle t-antigen: growth factor receptor mimic. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0168-7069(01)05004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Klafter R, Arbiser JL. Regulation of angiogenesis and tumorigenesis by signal transduction cascades: lessons from benign and malignant endothelial tumors. J Investig Dermatol Symp Proc 2000; 5:79-82. [PMID: 11147680 DOI: 10.1046/j.1087-0024.2000.00007.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes are implicated in the regulation of the angiogenic switch. Much of the data accumulated to date uses NIH 3T3 cells, which are deficient in the tumor suppressor gene p16, as models for these studies. We have used a novel system, derived by sequential introduction of a temperature-sensitive SV40 large T antigen and oncogenic H-ras, to study the angiogenic switch. The results from our studies differ from those using NIH3T3 cells, but have been confirmed by multiple other groups. The data from all of these studies suggest that there is synergy between inactivation of the p53 tumor suppressor gene and activation of the phosphoinositol-3-kinase pathway (PI-3-K), as well as synergy between inactivation of the p16 tumor suppressor gene and activation of the MAP kinase pathway. These findings suggest that there are predictable behaviors of tumors that may be assessed by the status of p53 or p16 in a biopsy, and that these predictable changes in signal transduction may be useful both prognostically and in the design of rationally based drug therapy of benign and malignant tumors.
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- R Klafter
- Department of Hematology/Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Holland EC, Li Y, Celestino J, Dai C, Schaefer L, Sawaya RA, Fuller GN. Astrocytes give rise to oligodendrogliomas and astrocytomas after gene transfer of polyoma virus middle T antigen in vivo. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2000; 157:1031-7. [PMID: 10980141 PMCID: PMC1885688 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64615-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The cells of origin for oligodendrogliomas and astrocytomas are not known but are presumed to be oligodendrocyte and astrocyte precursors, respectively. In this paper we report the generation of mixed gliomas from in vivo transformation of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive cells (differentiated astrocytes) with polyoma virus middle T antigen (MTA). MTA is a powerful oncogene that activates a number of signal transduction pathways, including those proposed to be involved in gliomagenesis, and has been shown to induce tumors in many cell types. We have achieved transfer of MTA expression specifically to GFAP(+) cells in vivo using somatic cell gene transfer, and find resultant formation of anaplastic gliomas with mixed astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma morphological features. We conclude that GFAP- expressing astrocytes, with appropriate signaling abnormalities, can serve as the cell of origin for oligodendrogliomas, astrocytomas, or mixed gliomas.
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- E C Holland
- Department of Neurosurgery, Graduate Program in Genes and Development, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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Primo L, Roca C, Ferrandi C, Lanfrancone L, Bussolino F. Human endothelial cells expressing polyoma middle T induce tumors. Oncogene 2000; 19:3632-41. [PMID: 10951569 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1203708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The middle T oncogene of murine polyomavirus (PymT) rapidly transforms and immortalizes murine embryonic endothelial cells (EC), leading to the formation of vascular tumors in newborn mice, by recruitment of host, non-transformed EC. These tumors are reminiscent of human vascular tumors like cavernous hemangioma, Kaposi's sarcoma or those characterizing Kasabach-Merrit syndrome. Here we investigate the in vitro and in vivo behavior of human primary umbilical cord vein EC expressing PymT. While PymT has been unable to transform human fibroblasts in earlier experiments or controls done here, mT expressing EC (PymT-EC) derived by infection with pLX-PymT retrovirus induce hemangiomas in nu/nu mice. These tumors contain not only human cells but also recruited mouse EC as shown by the presence of human and murine CD31 positive EC. In vitro analysis shows that PymT-EC retain endothelial specific markers like CD31, Von Willebrand factor, and VE-cadherin, and reach the confluence without signs of overgrowth. They are also responsive to vascular endothelial growth factor-A. However, their proliferation rate is increased. The balance between urokinase-type plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 is modified; RNA and catalytic activity for the former are elevated while PAI-1 RNA is reduced. In contrast with murine model, where the PymT EC cells become immortal, the effects induced by PymT in human EC are transient. After 12-15 passages, human PymT EC stop proliferating, assume a senescent phenotype, and lose the ability to induce hemangiomas. At the same time both the amount of middle T protein and the level of activation of pp60c-src lower.
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- L Primo
- Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, Candiolo, Torino, Italy
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Felici A, Giorgio M, Krauzewicz N, Della Rocca C, Santoro M, Rovere P, Manni I, Amati P, Pozzi L. Medullary thyroid carcinomas in transgenic mice expressing a Polyoma carboxyl-terminal truncated middle-T and wild type small-T antigens. Oncogene 1999; 18:2387-95. [PMID: 10327060 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1202578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare human tumor affecting the calcitonin-secreting c-cells of the thyroid. Here we report that two independent strains of transgenic mice expressing a Polyomavirus (Py) truncated middle-T antigen (deltaMT), consisting of the amino-terminal 304 amino acids, and the full length Py small-T antigen, developed multifocal bilateral MTCs with 100% penetrance. Occasionally one strain also developed mammary and bone tumors. Furthermore, offspring from both transgenic lines displayed pronounced waviness of the whiskers and fur, previously associated with defective epidermal growth factor receptor signaling. Transgene transcription, driven by the homologous early promoter/enhancer, and the corresponding translation products were detected in tumors and in many other organs which did not develop pathologies. The subcellular distribution of deltaMT and its interactions with the adapter proteins of the SHC family have also been analysed. Our study describes a novel murine model of MTC and provides evidence that the N-terminal 304 amino acid fragment of Py middle-T antigen, possibly in co-operation with small-T antigen, acts as a potent oncogene in c-cells of the thyroid.
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- A Felici
- Centro di Ricerca Sperimentale, Istituto Regina Elena, Rome, Italy
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Maru Y, Yamaguchi S, Takahashi T, Ueno H, Shibuya M. Virally activated Ras cooperates with integrin to induce tubulogenesis in sinusoidal endothelial cell lines. J Cell Physiol 1998; 176:223-34. [PMID: 9648910 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4652(199808)176:2<223::aid-jcp1>3.0.co;2-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Four cell lines, named nonparenchymal 11 (NP11), NP26, NP31, and NP32, were established from sinusoidal endothelial cells (SECs) of rat liver. They still retained expression of receptors for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), Fit-1, and kinase domain-containing receptor (KDR). NP31 and NP32 turned out to be incapable of tubulogenesis in basement membrane matrix (Matrigel), which belongs to endothelial properties, as shown by SECs in primary culture. Expression of temperature-sensitive, virally activated Ras (ts-v-Ras) restored tubulogenic behaviors back to NP31 only at permissive temperature. Matrigel induced long-lasting tyrosine phosphorylation of Shc, with recruitment of Grb-2 and microtubule-associated protein kinase (MAPK) activation in both parental NP31 and NP31 transformed by ts-v-Ras, which was blocked by anti-beta1 integrin antibody. Tubulogenesis was inhibited by adenovirus-mediated expression of dominant-negative Ras in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). PD 098059, a selective inhibitor of MAPK kinase (MEK), nearly perfectly blocked tubulogenesis by ts-v-Ras-expressing NP31 cells at permissive temperature. Furthermore, the botulinum C3 toxin, an inhibitor for Rho, caused fragmentation of branching cords in networks formed by NP31 that expressed ts-v-Ras at permissive temperature. These data suggest that the integrin-mediated Ras signals may be necessary but are not sufficient for tubulogenesis and that an artificial expression of v-Ras might substitute for the second signal required in this system.
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MESH Headings
- ADP Ribose Transferases/pharmacology
- Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
- Adaptor Proteins, Vesicular Transport
- Animals
- Botulinum Toxins
- Cadherins/analysis
- Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases/analysis
- Cell Adhesion Molecules/analysis
- Cell Line, Transformed/chemistry
- Cell Line, Transformed/drug effects
- Cell Line, Transformed/physiology
- Collagen/pharmacology
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/analysis
- Desmoplakins
- Drug Combinations
- Endothelium/chemistry
- Endothelium/cytology
- Endothelium/enzymology
- Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Extracellular Matrix/chemistry
- Extracellular Matrix/enzymology
- Flavonoids/pharmacology
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Humans
- Integrins/physiology
- Laminin/pharmacology
- Liver/blood supply
- Liver/cytology
- Liver/physiology
- Neovascularization, Physiologic/physiology
- Proteins/physiology
- Proteoglycans/pharmacology
- Rats
- Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/genetics
- Receptors, Growth Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Mitogen/genetics
- Receptors, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
- Retroviridae/genetics
- Shc Signaling Adaptor Proteins
- Signal Transduction/drug effects
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Src Homology 2 Domain-Containing, Transforming Protein 1
- Trans-Activators
- Umbilical Veins/cytology
- alpha Catenin
- beta Catenin
- ras Proteins/genetics
- src Homology Domains/physiology
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- Y Maru
- Department of Genetics, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan.
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation Are Supported by Embryonic Aorta-Gonad-Mesonephros Region–Derived Endothelium. Blood 1998. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v92.3.908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hematopoietic stem cells are capable of extensive self-renewal and expansion, particularly during embryonic growth. Although the molecular mechanisms involved with stem cell maintenance remain mysterious, it is now clear that an intraembryonic location, the aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region, is a site of residence and, potentially, amplification of the definitive hematopoietic stem cells that eventually seed the fetal liver and adult bone marrow. Because several studies suggested that morphologically defined hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in the AGM region appeared to be attached in clusters to the ventrally located endothelium of the dorsal aorta, we derived cell lines from this intraembryonic site using an anti-CD34 antibody to select endothelial cells. Analysis of two different AGM-derived CD34+ cell lines revealed that one, DAS 104-8, efficiently induced fetal-liver hematopoietic stem cells to differentiate down erythroid, myeloid, and B-lymphoid pathways, but it did not mediate self-renewal of these pluripotent cells. In contrast, a second cell line, DAS 104-4, was relatively inefficient at the induction of hematopoietic differentiation. Instead, this line provoked the expansion of early hematopoietic progenitor cells of the lin−CD34+Sca-1+c-Kit+phenotype and was proficient at maintaining fetal liver–derived hematopoietic stem cells able to competitively repopulate the bone marrow of lethally irradiated mice. These data bolster the hypothesis that the endothelium of the AGM region acts to mediate the support and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo.
© 1998 by The American Society of Hematology.
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Maintenance and Differentiation Are Supported by Embryonic Aorta-Gonad-Mesonephros Region–Derived Endothelium. Blood 1998. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v92.3.908.415k13_908_919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hematopoietic stem cells are capable of extensive self-renewal and expansion, particularly during embryonic growth. Although the molecular mechanisms involved with stem cell maintenance remain mysterious, it is now clear that an intraembryonic location, the aorta-gonad-mesonephros (AGM) region, is a site of residence and, potentially, amplification of the definitive hematopoietic stem cells that eventually seed the fetal liver and adult bone marrow. Because several studies suggested that morphologically defined hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells in the AGM region appeared to be attached in clusters to the ventrally located endothelium of the dorsal aorta, we derived cell lines from this intraembryonic site using an anti-CD34 antibody to select endothelial cells. Analysis of two different AGM-derived CD34+ cell lines revealed that one, DAS 104-8, efficiently induced fetal-liver hematopoietic stem cells to differentiate down erythroid, myeloid, and B-lymphoid pathways, but it did not mediate self-renewal of these pluripotent cells. In contrast, a second cell line, DAS 104-4, was relatively inefficient at the induction of hematopoietic differentiation. Instead, this line provoked the expansion of early hematopoietic progenitor cells of the lin−CD34+Sca-1+c-Kit+phenotype and was proficient at maintaining fetal liver–derived hematopoietic stem cells able to competitively repopulate the bone marrow of lethally irradiated mice. These data bolster the hypothesis that the endothelium of the AGM region acts to mediate the support and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo.
© 1998 by The American Society of Hematology.
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Masuzawa M, Fujimura T, Tsubokawa M, Nishiyama S, Katsuoka K, Terada E, Kunita S, Sakurai Y, Kato H. Establishment of a new murine-phenotypic angiosarcoma cell line (ISOS-1). J Dermatol Sci 1998; 16:91-8. [PMID: 9459120 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-1811(97)00032-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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A cell line, designated ISOS-1, was established from a tumor formed by transplantation of a human angiosarcoma into mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). The cells showed endothelial properties, based on the uptake of Dil-Ac-LDL and binding of UEA-I/GSA-I lectins, but were negative for CD11b and Pan Cytokeratin. However, the cells lost differentiated characteristics such as expression of von Willebrand factor, contact inhibition growth and tube formation activity. These findings indicate that ISOS-1 is a poorly-differentiated endothelial cell line. At the 81st passage, all of the cells were positive for H-2Dd in various intensity, but not HLA-ABC. The metaphase chromosomes consistently showed a characteristic mouse, but not human, telocentric form. Furthermore, this cell line produced fatal tumor growth in SCID mice and also in BALB/c mice. These results suggest that ISOS-1 is a murine-phenotypic angiosarcoma cell line.
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- M Masuzawa
- Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan
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Boudreau N, Andrews C, Srebrow A, Ravanpay A, Cheresh DA. Induction of the angiogenic phenotype by Hox D3. J Biophys Biochem Cytol 1997; 139:257-64. [PMID: 9314544 PMCID: PMC2139816 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.1.257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 175] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Angiogenesis is characterized by distinct phenotypic changes in vascular endothelial cells (EC). Evidence is provided that the Hox D3 homeobox gene mediates conversion of endothelium from the resting to the angiogenic/invasive state. Stimulation of EC with basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) resulted in increased expression of Hox D3, integrin alphavbeta3, and the urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA). Hox D3 antisense blocked the ability of bFGF to induce uPA and integrin alphavbeta3 expression, yet had no effect on EC cell proliferation or bFGF-mediated cyclin D1 expression. Expression of Hox D3, in the absence of bFGF, resulted in enhanced expression of integrin alphavbeta3 and uPA. In fact, sustained expression of Hox D3 in vivo on the chick chorioallantoic membrane retained EC in this invasive state and prevented vessel maturation leading to vascular malformations and endotheliomas. Therefore, Hox D3 regulates EC gene expression associated with the invasive stage of angiogenesis.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/biosynthesis
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Cell Division/genetics
- Cells, Cultured
- Chick Embryo
- Cyclin D1/biosynthesis
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Endothelium, Vascular/cytology
- Endothelium, Vascular/pathology
- Endothelium, Vascular/physiology
- Fibroblast Growth Factor 2/physiology
- Gene Expression Regulation/physiology
- Genes, Homeobox
- Hemangioendothelioma/etiology
- Hemangioendothelioma/genetics
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics
- Homeodomain Proteins/physiology
- Humans
- Integrin beta3
- Integrins/biosynthesis
- Integrins/genetics
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/genetics
- Neovascularization, Physiologic/genetics
- Phenotype
- Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins/biosynthesis
- Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- Transcription Factors
- Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator/biosynthesis
- Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator/genetics
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- N Boudreau
- Department of Immunology and Vascular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Witte MH, Way DL, Witte CL, Bernas M. Lymphangiogenesis: mechanisms, significance and clinical implications. EXS 1997; 79:65-112. [PMID: 9002221 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-9006-9_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- M H Witte
- Department of Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson 85724, USA
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Neubauer A, Manitz MP, Napirei M, Krippl B. Cell-type specific activation of the polyomavirus F9-1 regulatory region in transgenic mice. Transgenic Res 1996; 5:373-83. [PMID: 8840520 DOI: 10.1007/bf01980202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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To characterize the activity of the polyomavirus regulatory region, two hybrid marker genes were constructed. In the first construct, the early promoter regulates expression of the CAT gene and the late promoter regulates expression of the lacZ gene. In the second construct, the lacZ gene was placed under the control of the early promoter. The fusion constructs were introduced into the mouse germline. Gene expression was analysed in the generated transgenic mice. A pronounced cell-type specific activation of the transcriptional control region was found in different tissues of the developing embryo and in the adult animal. The control region is recognized and activated in early preimplantation embryos. Around the time of implantation, sequential activation of the Py regulatory region was first observed in differentiating cells. Stage- and tissue-specific expression were noted later in embryonic development. Comparing reporter gene expression on the single-cell level, the different viral promoters display identical expression patterns throughout ontogenesis. Quantitative analysis revealed that marker gene expression from the late promoter was significantly higher than from the early promoter. Furthermore, the cell-type specificity of the control region is not altered in the presence of its regulatory protein, the LT.
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- A Neubauer
- Institut für Physiologische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
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Azuma M, Tamatani T, Yuki T, Motegl K, Hoque MO, Yoshida H, Sato M. Increased matrix metalloproteinase-2 activity induced by TGF-beta 1 in duct cells of human salivary gland is associated with the development of cyst formation in vivo. J Oral Pathol Med 1996; 25:467-73. [PMID: 8959553 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0714.1996.tb00299.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Proteolytic enzyme activity has been shown to be important for cyst formation. In this study, we constructed a cyst-like structure in vivo and analyzed molecular mechanisms involved in the development of the lesion. When SV40-immortalized duct cells of normal human salivary gland (NS-SV-DC) were treated with TGF-beta 1 at a concentration of 1 ng/ml or 5 ng/ml followed by co-inoculation with Matrigel into the backs of nude mice, they formed large cysts containing fluid when 5 ng/ml of TGF-beta 1 was used. Analysis of the fluid demonstrated high MMP activity. Immunohistochemical staining exhibited strong reactivity with anti-MMP-2 antibody in TGF-beta 1 (5 ng/ml)-treated NS-SV-DC. Northern blot analysis indicated that the expression of TGF-beta 1 and MMP-2 mRNAs in cells was greatly enhanced by treatment with 5 ng/ml TGF-beta 1. These findings suggest that the in vivo cyst formation by TGF-beta 1-treated cells is associated with continuous induction of MMP-2 activity.
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- M Azuma
- Second Department of Orai and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokushima University School of Dentistry, Japan
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Wang SJ, Greer P, Auerbach R. Isolation and propagation of yolk-sac-derived endothelial cells from a hypervascular transgenic mouse expressing a gain-of-function fps/fes proto-oncogene. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim 1996; 32:292-9. [PMID: 8792159 DOI: 10.1007/bf02723062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We report on the isolation and propagation of endothelial cells from the mouse embryonic yolk sac, the earliest site of blood vessel development, and on the advantages of a hypervascular transgenic mouse source of these cells. These transgenic mice express multiple copies of an activated allele of the human fps/fes proto-oncogene and display hypervascularity progressing to multifocal hemangiomas. This phenotype suggested a role of the fps/fes proto-oncogene in vasculogenesis and angiogenesis and led us to investigate the growth characteristics of yolk-sac-derived endothelial cells from transgenic fps/fes embryos. We have established eight independent cell clones from a mixture of transgenic and control yolk sacs from Day 12 embryos. Southern blot hybridization analysis showed all eight clones to be derived from transgenic cells, suggesting a growth advantage of cells carrying the activated fps/fes gene. A cell line, Clone 166 (C166), established from one of these clones, was more fully characterized. C166 exhibits normal endothelial characteristics, such as rearrangement into tubelike structures when placed on Matrigel, expression of angiotensin converting enzyme, retention of cobblestone morphology at confluence, and the presence of cell surface receptors for acetylated low density lipoprotein. The cells constitutively express murine endothelial cell adhesion molecule VCAM-1 and the vascular addressin identified by antibody MECA-99. As expected, the cell line expresses high levels of the cytoplasmic protein-tyrosine kinase encoded by the fps/fes proto-oncogene. The clone we have described as well as other endothelial cell lines that we have established from the mouse embryonic yolk sac should prove useful for the study of endothelial cell differentiation and for the determination of the mechanisms underlying the establishment of organ-specific endothelial cell heterogeneity.
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- S J Wang
- Center for Developmental Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706, USA
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Shvemberger IN, Ermilov AN. Some characteristics of neoplastic cell transformation in transgenic mice. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1996; 164:37-90. [PMID: 8575893 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62384-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The role of the expression of different cellular genes and viral oncogenes in malignant cell transformation is discussed. We pay special attention to the role of the genes for growth factors and their receptors and homeobox genes in oncogenesis. Based on both the literature and our own data, specific features of tumors developed in transgenic mice are discussed. All of these data are used to analyze current theories of multistep oncogenesis and the stochastic component in this process. We suggest that all known evidence about the mechanisms of oncogenesis be used in studying the problem at various structural and functional levels in an organism. The chapter shows that transgenic mice are a most suitable model for studying various aspects of malignant transformation from the molecular to the organismal and populational levels.
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- I N Shvemberger
- Laboratory of Chromosome Stability and Cell Engineering, Institute of Cytology of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Laurent S, Bastin M. Elements of the polyomavirus replication origin required for homologous recombination mediated by large T antigen. J Virol 1995; 69:7304-8. [PMID: 7474159 PMCID: PMC189659 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.69.11.7304-7308.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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We introduced various elements of the polyomavirus origin of DNA replication into the genome of rat cells, and we analyzed their capacity to elicit rearrangements within the integrated sequences when exposed to large T antigen. The cis-acting sequences required for homologous recombination were those that make up a functional replication origin.
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- S Laurent
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Sheibani N, Frazier WA. Thrombospondin 1 expression in transformed endothelial cells restores a normal phenotype and suppresses their tumorigenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:6788-92. [PMID: 7624320 PMCID: PMC41414 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.15.6788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Murine endothelial cells are readily transformed in a single step by the polyomavirus oncogene encoding middle-sized tumor antigen. These cells (bEND.3) form tumors (hemangiomas) in mice which are lethal in newborn animals. The bEND.3 cells rapidly proliferate in culture and express little or no thrombospondin 1 (TS1). To determine the role of TS1 in regulation of endothelial cell phenotype, we stably transfected bEND.3 cells with a human TS1 expression vector. The cells expressing human TS1 were readily identified by their altered morphology and exhibited a slower growth rate and lower saturation density than the parental bEND.3 cells. The TS1-expressing cells also formed aligned cords of cells instead of clumps or cysts in Matrigel. Moreover, while the bEND.3 cells formed large tumors in nude mice within 48 hr, the TS1-expressing cells failed to form tumors even after 1 month. The TS1-transfected cells expressed transforming growth factor beta mRNA and bioactivity at levels similar to those of the parental or vector-transfected bEND.3 cells, indicating that the effects of TS1 expression are not due to the activation of transforming growth factor beta by TS1. TS1 expression resulted in a > 100-fold decrease in net fibrinolytic (urokinase-type plasminogen activator, uPA) activity due to more plasminogen-activator inhibitor 1 and less uPA secretion. TS1 thus appears to be an important regulator of endothelial cell phenotype required for maintaining the quiescent, differentiated state.
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- N Sheibani
- Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Plendl J, Sinowatz F, Auerbach R. A transformed murine myocardial vascular endothelial cell clone: characterization of cells in vitro and of tumours derived from clone in situ. Virchows Arch 1995; 426:619-28. [PMID: 7655744 DOI: 10.1007/bf00192118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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In the course of maintaining a cloned murine myocardium-derived endothelial cell line (mouse heart endothelial cell clone 5; MHEC5) a spontaneously transformed variant has been identified (clone MHEC5-T). On injection into histocompatible mice, clone MHEC5-T uniformly generated epithelioid haemangioendotheliomas. Clone MHEC5-T underwent significant additional alterations in addition to the acquisition of tumour-forming potential in vivo along with the diagnostic correlate of loss of cellular contact inhibition in vitro. Whereas the transformed cells maintained lectin-binding properties characteristic of endothelial cells, they lost the cell surface receptor(s) for acetylated low density lipoprotein and no longer bound antibodies to either angiotensin converting enzyme or von Willebrand factor-associated antigen. Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), expressed constitutively on the parent clone, was down-regulated in the transformed cell line. The transformed cells acquired immunoreactivity to antibodies directed against cytokeratin, and they showed a markedly increased response to migration-inducing factors in vitro. The cell line described in this report demonstrates that the in vitro transformation of myocardium-derived endothelial cells can lead through transitional stages of differentiation to a new stable phenotype characterized by endothelial--to--epithelioid transition. The study of MHEC5-T cells, in addition to providing insight into the biology of cardiac neoplasms, may help to elucidate regulatory mechanisms involved in endothelial cell activation, transition and transformation.
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- J Plendl
- Institute for Veterinary Anatomy, University of Munich, Germany
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Helseth A, Haug E, Nesland JM, Siegal GP, Fodstad O, Bautch VL. Endocrine and metabolic characteristics of polyoma large T transgenic mice that develop ACTH-producing pituitary tumors. J Neurosurg 1995; 82:879-85. [PMID: 7714615 DOI: 10.3171/jns.1995.82.5.0879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The authors have analyzed several endocrine and metabolic parameters in polyoma large T transgenic mice (PyLT-1) that develop adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-immunoreactive pituitary tumors and in nontransgenic mice with tumor transplants. All clinically ill PyLT-1 mice (13 to 16 months of age) had pituitary macroadenomas and elevated plasma ACTH levels. Compared to PyLT-1 transgenic mice, the ACTH plasma concentrations in immunocompetent mice with transplant tumors were markedly raised. In these animals, a secondary effect of hypercorticotropism was documented by a moderate hyperglycemia. Furthermore, mice with transplant tumors had a pathological weight increase from the time the tumor was palpable. The present study supports and extends the authors' previous morphological documentation of the similarity between the ACTH-producing tumors in this mouse model and human Cushing's disease.
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- A Helseth
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
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O'Reilly MS, Brem H, Folkman J. Treatment of murine hemangioendotheliomas with the angiogenesis inhibitor AGM-1470. J Pediatr Surg 1995; 30:325-9; discussion 329-30. [PMID: 7738759 DOI: 10.1016/0022-3468(95)90583-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Hemangioma and other angiomatous diseases of childhood are common. Although most lesions are harmless and self-limiting, some are associated with significant morbidity and may be life-threatening. Interferon-alpha, a weak angiogenesis inhibitor, recently has been found to significantly reduce the mortality rate associated with life-threatening hemangiomas. The effectiveness of AGM-1470, a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis derived from the fungal product fumagillin, was tested in a mouse model of hemangioendothelioma. Thirty syngeneic mice were implanted with cells derived from a spontaneous mouse hemangioendothelioma. Tumors formed within 2 to 3 days, and the animals were then treated systemically with AGM-1470 or with saline and vehicle alone. After 22 days, the tumor volume in the saline-treated mice was 7368 +/- 2723 mm3, versus 709 +/- 73 mm3 in the mice that received AGM-1470 (P < .001). Survival was prolonged for the AGM-1470-treated mice, and there was no evidence of drug-related toxicity. All experiments were repeated. In this study, AGM-1470 was safe and highly effective in the treatment of hemangioendothelioma. AGM-1470, and other antiangiogenic agents, may provide safe and effective treatment for hemangioma and other angiomatous diseases.
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- M S O'Reilly
- Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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The fps/fes proto-oncogene encodes a cytoplasmic protein-tyrosine kinase known to be highly expressed in hematopoietic cells. To investigate fps/fes biological function, an activating mutation was introduced into the human fps/fes gene which directs amino-terminal myristylation of the Fps/Fes protein. This mutant, myristylated protein induced transformation of Rat-2 fibroblasts. The mutant fps/fes allele was incorporated into the mouse germ line and was found to be appropriately expressed in transgenic mice, in a tissue-specific pattern indistinguishable from that of the endogenous mouse gene. These mice displayed widespread hypervascularity, progressing to multifocal hemangiomas. High levels of both the transgenic human and endogenous murine fps/fes transcripts were detected in vascular tumors by using RNase protection, and fps/fes transcripts were localized to endothelial cells of both the vascular tumors and normal blood vessels by in situ RNA hybridization. Primary human umbilical vein endothelial cultures were also shown to express fps/fes transcripts and the Fps/Fes tyrosine kinase. These results indicate that fps/fes expression is intrinsic to cells of the vascular endothelial lineage and suggest a direct role of the Fps/Fes protein-tyrosine kinase in the regulation of angiogenesis.
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Greer P, Haigh J, Mbamalu G, Khoo W, Bernstein A, Pawson T. The Fps/Fes protein-tyrosine kinase promotes angiogenesis in transgenic mice. Mol Cell Biol 1994; 14:6755-63. [PMID: 7523858 PMCID: PMC359206 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.14.10.6755-6763.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The fps/fes proto-oncogene encodes a cytoplasmic protein-tyrosine kinase known to be highly expressed in hematopoietic cells. To investigate fps/fes biological function, an activating mutation was introduced into the human fps/fes gene which directs amino-terminal myristylation of the Fps/Fes protein. This mutant, myristylated protein induced transformation of Rat-2 fibroblasts. The mutant fps/fes allele was incorporated into the mouse germ line and was found to be appropriately expressed in transgenic mice, in a tissue-specific pattern indistinguishable from that of the endogenous mouse gene. These mice displayed widespread hypervascularity, progressing to multifocal hemangiomas. High levels of both the transgenic human and endogenous murine fps/fes transcripts were detected in vascular tumors by using RNase protection, and fps/fes transcripts were localized to endothelial cells of both the vascular tumors and normal blood vessels by in situ RNA hybridization. Primary human umbilical vein endothelial cultures were also shown to express fps/fes transcripts and the Fps/Fes tyrosine kinase. These results indicate that fps/fes expression is intrinsic to cells of the vascular endothelial lineage and suggest a direct role of the Fps/Fes protein-tyrosine kinase in the regulation of angiogenesis.
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- P Greer
- Cancer Research Laboratories, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Dumont DJ, Gradwohl G, Fong GH, Puri MC, Gertsenstein M, Auerbach A, Breitman ML. Dominant-negative and targeted null mutations in the endothelial receptor tyrosine kinase, tek, reveal a critical role in vasculogenesis of the embryo. Genes Dev 1994; 8:1897-909. [PMID: 7958865 DOI: 10.1101/gad.8.16.1897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 677] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) expressed on the surface of endothelial cells are likely to play key roles in initiating the program of endothelial cell growth during development and subsequent vascularization during wound healing and tumorigenesis. Expression of the Tek RTK during mouse development is restricted primarily to endothelial cells and their progenitors, the angioblasts, suggesting that Tek is a key participant in vasculogenesis. To investigate the role that Tek plays within the endothelial cell lineage, we have disrupted the Tek signaling pathway using two different genetic approaches. First, we constructed transgenic mice expressing a dominant-negative form of the Tek receptor. Second, we created a null allele of the tek gene by homologous recombination in embryonic stem (ES) cells. Transgenic mice expressing dominant-negative alleles of Tek or homozygous for a null allele of the tek locus both died in utero with similar defects in the integrity of their endothelium. By crossing transgenic mice that express the lacZ reporter gene under the transcriptional control of the endothelial cell-specific tek promoter, we found that the extraembryonic and embryonic vasculature was patterned correctly. However, homozygous tek embryos had approximately 30% and 75% fewer endothelial cells at day 8.5 and 9.0, respectively. Homozygous null embryos also displayed abnormalities in heart development, consistent with the conclusion that Tek is necessary for endocardial/myocardial interactions during development. On the basis of the analysis of mice carrying either dominant-negative or null mutations of the tek gene, these observations demonstrate that the Tek signaling pathway plays a critical role in the differentiation, proliferation, and survival of endothelial cells in the mouse embryo.
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- D J Dumont
- Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Garlanda C, Parravicini C, Sironi M, De Rossi M, Wainstok de Calmanovici R, Carozzi F, Bussolino F, Colotta F, Mantovani A, Vecchi A. Progressive growth in immunodeficient mice and host cell recruitment by mouse endothelial cells transformed by polyoma middle-sized T antigen: implications for the pathogenesis of opportunistic vascular tumors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:7291-5. [PMID: 8041783 PMCID: PMC44385 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.15.7291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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A retroviral construct encoding polyoma middle-sized T antigen was used to generate transformed endothelial cell lines from heart (H5V), brain (B9V), and whole-embryo (E10V) of C57BL/6 mice. When injected into syngeneic recipients, H5V and the less studied B9V and E10V cells caused vascular tumors which, depending on the number of cells inoculated, regressed or progressed, leading to death of the host. When H5V cells were injected into immunodeficient mice, tumors were observed with inocula which did not form lesions in immunocompetent recipients and regression did not occur. Treatment with anti-LFA-1, anti-Thy-1.2, and anti-CD8 antibodies abolished rejection; anti-CD4 was a somewhat less effective inhibitor of resistance. Animals with progressive tumors exhibited secondary lesions in various organs with prominent skin involvement in nude mice. Histologically, the tumors had the appearance of a hemangioma, with areas resembling Kaposi sarcoma. Cells lining vascular lacunae had the morphological features of injected H5V cells. The lesions were characterized by prominent neovascularization and mononuclear cell infiltration. Southern blot hybridization analysis revealed that approximately 5% of the cells in the tumor mass were transplanted H5V cells. Thus, the H5V transformed endothelial line causes vascular lesions that are sustained to a large extent by recruitment of host cells and manifests full malignant behavior only in immunocompromised hosts. The hypothesis of a tumor sustained by a minute proportion of transformed cells, which recruit host elements and express full malignant behavior only in immunodeficient hosts, would account for several features of some vascular neoplasms in man.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/physiology
- Cell Division
- Cell Line, Transformed
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Cell Transformation, Viral
- Cloning, Molecular
- Endothelium, Vascular/pathology
- Immunocompromised Host
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue/etiology
- Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue/immunology
- Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue/pathology
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Kawabuchi B, Nomura K, Ohtake K, Hino O, Aizawa S, Machinami R, Kitagawa T. Subcutaneous sarcomas of probable neuronal origin in a transgenic mouse strain containing an albumin promoter-fused simian virus 40 large T antigen gene. Jpn J Cancer Res 1994; 85:601-9. [PMID: 8063613 PMCID: PMC5919532 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1994.tb02402.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Frequent development of subcutaneous neurogenic sarcomas was observed in a hepatocellular carcinoma-producing transgenic mouse strain harboring an albumin-promoted simian virus 40 (SV40) large T antigen gene. Found unexpectedly in 19 out of 306 mice (6.2%) by 6 months of age, all the sarcomas were similar and were characterized as neurogenic on the basis of histological features including Homer-Wright type rosette formation, the presence of dense core granules of 100-200 nm diameter under the electron microscope, expression of neuron specific enolase, S-100 protein, and catecholamines, and nerve cell-like differentiation in culture in response to But2cAMP. Immunohistochemical study revealed tiny clusters of SV40 T antigen-expressing cells with neurogenic character in normal-appearing adult mouse subcutis as candidate progenitors of the sarcomas. The tumor cells strongly expressed large T antigen but did not express albumin or albumin mRNA at the detection sensitivity used. Transient transfection assay (CAT assay), however, revealed the presence of transcriptional factor(s) acting on the albumin promoter in tumor cells. Thus, the present investigation suggested the presence of specifically differentiated neurogenic cells in the mouse subcutis with aberrant expression of the transgene.
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MESH Headings
- Albumins/genetics
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/genetics
- Blotting, Northern
- Catecholamines/analysis
- Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase/genetics
- Chloramphenicol O-Acetyltransferase/metabolism
- Genes, Viral
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Nude
- Mice, Transgenic
- Neoplasm Transplantation
- Neurofibrosarcoma/etiology
- Neurofibrosarcoma/genetics
- Neurofibrosarcoma/pathology
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Sarcoma, Experimental/etiology
- Sarcoma, Experimental/genetics
- Sarcoma, Experimental/pathology
- Simian virus 40/genetics
- Simian virus 40/immunology
- Transfection
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- B Kawabuchi
- Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute, Tokyo
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