期刊
EMBO REPORTS
卷 15, 期 1, 页码 62-69出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/embr.201337799
关键词
crypt fission; field cancerization; K-ras; Lgr5 intestinal stem cells; neutral competition
资金
- Dutch Cancer Society [UU 2013-6070]
- Wellcome Trust [098357/Z/12/Z]
The concept of 'field cancerization' describes the clonal expansion of genetically altered, but morphologically normal cells that predisposes a tissue to cancer development. Here, we demonstrate that biased stem cell competition in the mouse small intestine can initiate the expansion of such clones. We quantitatively analyze how the activation of oncogenic K-ras in individual Lgr5(+) stem cells accelerates their cell division rate and creates a biased drift towards crypt clonality. K-ras mutant crypts then clonally expand within the epithelium through enhanced crypt fission, which distributes the existing Paneth cell niche over the two new crypts. Thus, an unequal competition between wild-type and mutant intestinal stem cells initiates a biased drift that leads to the clonal expansion of crypts carrying oncogenic mutations.
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