期刊
JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
卷 243, 期 4, 页码 442-456出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/path.4977
关键词
prostate cancer; Pten; K-Ras; beta-catenin; WNT; mTORC1
资金
- Prostate Cancer UK via a Movember Project Grant [PG12-16]
- Prostate Cancer Research Centre
- European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute
- Cancer Research Wales
- Cancer Research UK
- Cancer Research UK [15938] Funding Source: researchfish
- Prostate Cancer Research [6943] Funding Source: researchfish
- Prostate Cancer UK [PG12-16] Funding Source: researchfish
Aberrant phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) and WNT signalling are emerging as key events in the multistep nature of prostate tumourigenesis and progression. Here, we report a compound prostate cancer murine model in which these signalling pathways cooperate to produce a more aggressive prostate cancer phenotype. Using Cre-LoxP technology and the probasin promoter, we combined the loss of Pten (Pten(fl/fl)), to activate the PI3K signalling pathway, with either dominant stabilized beta-catenin [Catnb(+/lox(ex3))] or activated K-RAS (K-Ras(+/V12)) to aberrantly activate WNT and MAPK signalling, respectively. Synchronous activation of all three pathways (triple mutants) significantly reduced survival (median 96days) as compared with double mutants [median: 140days for Catnb(+/lox(ex3))Pten(fl/fl); 182days for Catnb(+/lox(ex3))K-Ras(+/V12); 238days for Pten(fl/fl)K-Ras(+/V12)], and single mutants [median: 383days for Catnb(+/lox(ex3)); 407days for Pten(fl/fl)], reflecting the accelerated tumourigenesis. Tumours followed a stepwise progression from mouse prostate intraepithelial neoplasia to invasive adenocarcinoma, similar to that seen in human disease. There was significantly elevated cellular proliferation, tumour growth and percentage of invasive adenocarcinoma in triple mutants as compared with double mutants and single mutants. Triple mutants showed not only activated AKT, extracellular-signal regulated kinase 1/2, and nuclear beta-catenin, but also significantly elevated signalling through mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1). In summary, we show that combined deregulation of the PI3K, MAPK and WNT signalling pathways drives rapid progression of prostate tumourigenesis, and that deregulation of all three pathways results in tumours showing aberrant mTORC1 signalling. As mTORC1 signalling is emerging as a key driver of androgen deprivation therapy resistance, our findings are important for understanding the biology of therapy-resistant prostate cancer and identifying potential approaches to overcome this. Copyright (C) 2017 Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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