Journal
GENES & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 30, Issue 17, Pages 1943-1955Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/gad.283499.116
Keywords
acinar-to-ductal metaplasia; hedgehog signaling; EGFR signaling; stromal fibroblast; AKT signaling
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Funding
- National Institutes of Health [PO1 CA097189]
- National Research Service Award [F31 CA189757, R01 CA124586]
- Department of Defense [W81XWH-14-1-0040]
- Pelotonia Fellowship Program
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The contribution of the microenvironment to pancreatic acinar-to-ductal metaplasia (ADM), a preneoplastic transition in oncogenic Kras-driven pancreatic cancer progression, is currently unclear. Here we show that disruption of paracrine Hedgehog signaling via genetic ablation of Smoothened (Smo) in stromal fibroblasts in a Kras(G12D) mouse model increased ADM. Smo-deleted fibroblasts had higher expression of transforming growth factor-alpha (Tgf alpha) mRNA and secreted higher levels of TGF alpha, leading to activation of EGFR signaling in acinar cells and increased ADM. The mechanism involved activation of AKT and noncanonical activation of the GLI family transcription factor GLI2. GLI2 was phosphorylated at Ser230 in an AKT-dependent fashion and directly regulated Tgf alpha expression in fibroblasts lacking Smo. Additionally, Smo-deleted fibroblasts stimulated the growth of Kras(G12D)/TP53(R172H) pancreatic tumor cells in vivo and in vitro. These results define a non-cell-autonomous mechanism modulating Kras(G12D). driven ADM that is balanced by cross-talk between Hedgehog/SMO and AKT/GLI2 pathways in stromal fibroblasts.
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