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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 104, Issue 37, Pages 14771-14776Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0706578104
Keywords
beta-catenin; hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 alpha; liver cancer; MET; mouse; hepatocellular carcinoma
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- NCI NIH HHS [T32 CA009043, CA009043] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK049022, DK49022] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [T32 GM007618] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [K01 096774, 5T32GMO7618] Funding Source: Medline
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We used several of the genetic lesions commonly associated with human liver tumors to reconstruct genetic progression to hepatocellular carcinoma and adenoma in mouse models. We initiated tumorigenesis with a transgene of the protooncogene MET or by hydrodynamic transfection of MET in combination with other genes into the livers of adult animals. Hepatocellular carcinoma in both instances arose from cooperation between MET and constitutively active versions of beta-catenin. 16 contrast, adenomas were produced by cooperation between MET and defective signaling through the transcription factor HNF1 alpha. Prompted by these findings, we uncovered a coincidence between activation of the protein-tyrosine kinase encoded by MET and activating mutations of beta-catenin in a subset of human hepatocellular carcinomas. Inactivation of MET transgenes led to regression of hepatocellular carcinomas despite the persistence of activated beta-catenin. The tumors eventually recurred in the absence of MET expression, however, presumably after the occurrence of one or more events that cooperated with activated beta-catenin in lieu of MET. These results offer insight into hepatic tumorigenesis, provide mouse models that should be useful in the further study of hepatic tumorigenesis and for preclinical testing, and identify a subset of human hepatocellular carcinomas that may be susceptible to combination therapy directed against Met and the Wnt signaling pathway.
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