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NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 1299-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41556-021-00793-9
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- National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Singapore [MOH-000366]
- A*STAR
- National Research Foundation (NRF) [NRFI2017-03]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [17H01399]
- JSPS KAKENHI [17H06710, 17K07161]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K07161, 17H01399, 17H06710] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Researchers developed transgenic and orthotopic mouse models to recapitulate advanced human gastric cancer, uncovering a mechanistic role for Lgr5(+) stem-like cells in promoting disease initiation and progression. These models accurately recapitulate advanced human gastric cancer characteristics and demonstrate the critical role of tumor-resident Lgr5(+) stem-like cells.
Gastric cancer is among the most prevalent and deadliest of cancers globally. To derive mechanistic insight into the pathways governing this disease, we generated a Claudin18-IRES-CreERT2 allele to selectively drive conditional dysregulation of the Wnt, Receptor Tyrosine Kinase and Trp53 pathways within the gastric epithelium. This resulted in highly reproducible metastatic, chromosomal-instable-type gastric cancer. In parallel, we developed orthotopic cancer organoid transplantation models to evaluate tumour-resident Lgr5(+) populations as functional cancer stem cells via in vivo ablation. We show that Cldn18 tumours accurately recapitulate advanced human gastric cancer in terms of disease morphology, aberrant gene expression, molecular markers and sites of distant metastases. Importantly, we establish that tumour-resident Lgr5(+) stem-like cells are critical to the initiation and maintenance of tumour burden and are obligatory for the establishment of metastases. These models will be invaluable for deriving clinically relevant mechanistic insights into cancer progression and as preclinical models for evaluating therapeutic targets. Fatehullah et al. develop transgenic and orthotopic mouse models to recapitulate advanced human gastric cancer and uncover a mechanistic role for Lgr5(+) stem-like cells in promoting disease initiation and progression.
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