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de Lau W Barker N Low TY Koo BK Li VS Teunissen H Kujala P Haegebarth A Peters PJ van de Wetering M Stange DE van Es JE Guardavaccaro D Schasfoort RB Mohri Y Nishimori K Mohammed S Heck AJ Clevers H 《Nature》2011,476(7360):293-297
The adult stem cell marker Lgr5 and its relative Lgr4 are often co-expressed in Wnt-driven proliferative compartments. We find that conditional deletion of both genes in the mouse gut impairs Wnt target gene expression and results in the rapid demise of intestinal crypts, thus phenocopying Wnt pathway inhibition. Mass spectrometry demonstrates that Lgr4 and Lgr5 associate with the Frizzled/Lrp Wnt receptor complex. Each of the four R-spondins, secreted Wnt pathway agonists, can bind to Lgr4, -5 and -6. In HEK293 cells, RSPO1 enhances canonical WNT signals initiated by WNT3A. Removal of LGR4 does not affect WNT3A signalling, but abrogates the RSPO1-mediated signal enhancement, a phenomenon rescued by re-expression of LGR4, -5 or -6. Genetic deletion of Lgr4/5 in mouse intestinal crypt cultures phenocopies withdrawal of Rspo1 and can be rescued by Wnt pathway activation. Lgr5 homologues are facultative Wnt receptor components that mediate Wnt signal enhancement by soluble R-spondin proteins. These results will guide future studies towards the application of R-spondins for regenerative purposes of tissues expressing Lgr5 homologues. 相似文献
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Hao HX Xie Y Zhang Y Charlat O Oster E Avello M Lei H Mickanin C Liu D Ruffner H Mao X Ma Q Zamponi R Bouwmeester T Finan PM Kirschner MW Porter JA Serluca FC Cong F 《Nature》2012,485(7397):195-200
R-spondin proteins strongly potentiate Wnt signalling and function as stem-cell growth factors. Despite the biological and therapeutic significance, the molecular mechanism of R-spondin action remains unclear. Here we show that the cell-surface transmembrane E3 ubiquitin ligase zinc and ring finger 3 (ZNRF3) and its homologue ring finger 43 (RNF43) are negative feedback regulators of Wnt signalling. ZNRF3 is associated with the Wnt receptor complex, and inhibits Wnt signalling by promoting the turnover of frizzled and LRP6. Inhibition of ZNRF3 enhances Wnt/β-catenin signalling and disrupts Wnt/planar cell polarity signalling in vivo. Notably, R-spondin mimics ZNRF3 inhibition by increasing the membrane level of Wnt receptors. Mechanistically, R-spondin interacts with the extracellular domain of ZNRF3 and induces the association between ZNRF3 and LGR4, which results in membrane clearance of ZNRF3. These data suggest that R-spondin enhances Wnt signalling by inhibiting ZNRF3. Our study provides new mechanistic insights into the regulation of Wnt receptor turnover, and reveals ZNRF3 as a tractable target for therapeutic exploration. 相似文献
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Tomlins SA Laxman B Dhanasekaran SM Helgeson BE Cao X Morris DS Menon A Jing X Cao Q Han B Yu J Wang L Montie JE Rubin MA Pienta KJ Roulston D Shah RB Varambally S Mehra R Chinnaiyan AM 《Nature》2007,448(7153):595-599
Recently, we identified recurrent gene fusions involving the 5' untranslated region of the androgen-regulated gene TMPRSS2 and the ETS (E26 transformation-specific) family genes ERG, ETV1 or ETV4 in most prostate cancers. Whereas TMPRSS2-ERG fusions are predominant, fewer TMPRSS2-ETV1 cases have been identified than expected on the basis of the frequency of high (outlier) expression of ETV1 (refs 3-13). Here we explore the mechanism of ETV1 outlier expression in human prostate tumours and prostate cancer cell lines. We identified previously unknown 5' fusion partners in prostate tumours with ETV1 outlier expression, including untranslated regions from a prostate-specific androgen-induced gene (SLC45A3) and an endogenous retroviral element (HERV-K_22q11.23), a prostate-specific androgen-repressed gene (C15orf21), and a strongly expressed housekeeping gene (HNRPA2B1). To study aberrant activation of ETV1, we identified two prostate cancer cell lines, LNCaP and MDA-PCa 2B, that had ETV1 outlier expression. Through distinct mechanisms, the entire ETV1 locus (7p21) is rearranged to a 1.5-megabase prostate-specific region at 14q13.3-14q21.1 in both LNCaP cells (cryptic insertion) and MDA-PCa 2B cells (balanced translocation). Because the common factor of these rearrangements is aberrant ETV1 overexpression, we recapitulated this event in vitro and in vivo, demonstrating that ETV1 overexpression in benign prostate cells and in the mouse prostate confers neoplastic phenotypes. Identification of distinct classes of ETS gene rearrangements demonstrates that dormant oncogenes can be activated in prostate cancer by juxtaposition to tissue-specific or ubiquitously active genomic loci. Subversion of active genomic regulatory elements may serve as a more generalized mechanism for carcinoma development. Furthermore, the identification of androgen-repressed and insensitive 5' fusion partners may have implications for the anti-androgen treatment of advanced prostate cancer. 相似文献
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Banerji S Cibulskis K Rangel-Escareno C Brown KK Carter SL Frederick AM Lawrence MS Sivachenko AY Sougnez C Zou L Cortes ML Fernandez-Lopez JC Peng S Ardlie KG Auclair D Bautista-Piña V Duke F Francis J Jung J Maffuz-Aziz A Onofrio RC Parkin M Pho NH Quintanar-Jurado V Ramos AH Rebollar-Vega R Rodriguez-Cuevas S Romero-Cordoba SL Schumacher SE Stransky N Thompson KM Uribe-Figueroa L Baselga J Beroukhim R Polyak K Sgroi DC Richardson AL Jimenez-Sanchez G Lander ES Gabriel SB Garraway LA Golub TR 《Nature》2012,486(7403):405-409
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Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network 《Nature》2011,474(7353):609-615
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Stephens PJ Tarpey PS Davies H Van Loo P Greenman C Wedge DC Nik-Zainal S Martin S Varela I Bignell GR Yates LR Papaemmanuil E Beare D Butler A Cheverton A Gamble J Hinton J Jia M Jayakumar A Jones D Latimer C Lau KW McLaren S McBride DJ Menzies A Mudie L Raine K Rad R Chapman MS Teague J Easton D Langerød A;Oslo Breast Cancer Consortium 《Nature》2012,486(7403):400-404
All cancers carry somatic mutations in their genomes. A subset, known as driver mutations, confer clonal selective advantage on cancer cells and are causally implicated in oncogenesis, and the remainder are passenger mutations. The driver mutations and mutational processes operative in breast cancer have not yet been comprehensively explored. Here we examine the genomes of 100 tumours for somatic copy number changes and mutations in the coding exons of protein-coding genes. The number of somatic mutations varied markedly between individual tumours. We found strong correlations between mutation number, age at which cancer was diagnosed and cancer histological grade, and observed multiple mutational signatures, including one present in about ten per cent of tumours characterized by numerous mutations of cytosine at TpC dinucleotides. Driver mutations were identified in several new cancer genes including AKT2, ARID1B, CASP8, CDKN1B, MAP3K1, MAP3K13, NCOR1, SMARCD1 and TBX3. Among the 100 tumours, we found driver mutations in at least 40 cancer genes and 73 different combinations of mutated cancer genes. The results highlight the substantial genetic diversity underlying this common disease. 相似文献
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Ding L Getz G Wheeler DA Mardis ER McLellan MD Cibulskis K Sougnez C Greulich H Muzny DM Morgan MB Fulton L Fulton RS Zhang Q Wendl MC Lawrence MS Larson DE Chen K Dooling DJ Sabo A Hawes AC Shen H Jhangiani SN Lewis LR Hall O Zhu Y Mathew T Ren Y Yao J Scherer SE Clerc K Metcalf GA Ng B Milosavljevic A Gonzalez-Garay ML Osborne JR Meyer R Shi X Tang Y Koboldt DC Lin L Abbott R Miner TL Pohl C Fewell G Haipek C Schmidt H Dunford-Shore BH Kraja A Crosby SD Sawyer CS Vickery T Sander S Robinson J 《Nature》2008,455(7216):1069-1075
Determining the genetic basis of cancer requires comprehensive analyses of large collections of histopathologically well-classified primary tumours. Here we report the results of a collaborative study to discover somatic mutations in 188 human lung adenocarcinomas. DNA sequencing of 623 genes with known or potential relationships to cancer revealed more than 1,000 somatic mutations across the samples. Our analysis identified 26 genes that are mutated at significantly high frequencies and thus are probably involved in carcinogenesis. The frequently mutated genes include tyrosine kinases, among them the EGFR homologue ERBB4; multiple ephrin receptor genes, notably EPHA3; vascular endothelial growth factor receptor KDR; and NTRK genes. These data provide evidence of somatic mutations in primary lung adenocarcinoma for several tumour suppressor genes involved in other cancers--including NF1, APC, RB1 and ATM--and for sequence changes in PTPRD as well as the frequently deleted gene LRP1B. The observed mutational profiles correlate with clinical features, smoking status and DNA repair defects. These results are reinforced by data integration including single nucleotide polymorphism array and gene expression array. Our findings shed further light on several important signalling pathways involved in lung adenocarcinoma, and suggest new molecular targets for treatment. 相似文献
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An LDL-receptor-related protein mediates Wnt signalling in mice 总被引:36,自引:0,他引:36
Wnt genes comprise a large family of secreted polypeptides that are expressed in spatially and tissue-restricted patterns during vertebrate embryonic development. Mutational analysis in mice has shown the importance of Wnts in controlling diverse developmental processes such as patterning of the body axis, central nervous system and limbs, and the regulation of inductive events during organogenesis. Although many components of the Wnt signalling pathway have been identified, little is known about how Wnts and their cognate Frizzled receptors signal to downstream effector molecules. Here we present evidence that a new member of the low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-receptor-related protein family, LRP6 (ref. 3), is critical for Wnt signalling in mice. Embryos homozygous for an insertion mutation in the LRP6 gene exhibit developmental defects that are a striking composite of those caused by mutations in individual Wnt genes. Furthermore, we show a genetic enhancement of a Wnt mutant phenotype in mice lacking one functional copy of LRP6. Together, our results support a broad role for LRP6 in the transduction of several Wnt signals in mammals. 相似文献
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TJ Pugh SD Weeraratne TC Archer DA Pomeranz Krummel D Auclair J Bochicchio MO Carneiro SL Carter K Cibulskis RL Erlich H Greulich MS Lawrence NJ Lennon A McKenna J Meldrim AH Ramos MG Ross C Russ E Shefler A Sivachenko B Sogoloff P Stojanov P Tamayo JP Mesirov V Amani N Teider S Sengupta JP Francois PA Northcott MD Taylor F Yu GR Crabtree AG Kautzman SB Gabriel G Getz N Jäger DT Jones P Lichter SM Pfister TM Roberts M Meyerson SL Pomeroy YJ Cho 《Nature》2012,488(7409):106-110
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Johnson L Mercer K Greenbaum D Bronson RT Crowley D Tuveson DA Jacks T 《Nature》2001,410(6832):1111-1116
About 30% of human tumours carry ras gene mutations. Of the three genes in this family (composed of K-ras, N-ras and H-ras), K-ras is the most frequently mutated member in human tumours, including adenocarcinomas of the pancreas ( approximately 70-90% incidence), colon ( approximately 50%) and lung ( approximately 25-50%). To construct mouse tumour models involving K-ras, we used a new gene targeting procedure to create mouse strains carrying oncogenic alleles of K-ras that can be activated only on a spontaneous recombination event in the whole animal. Here we show that mice carrying these mutations were highly predisposed to a range of tumour types, predominantly early onset lung cancer. This model was further characterized by examining the effects of germline mutations in the tumour suppressor gene p53, which is known to be mutated along with K-ras in human tumours. This approach has several advantages over traditional transgenic strategies, including that it more closely recapitulates spontaneous oncogene activation as seen in human cancers. 相似文献
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McMurray HR Sampson ER Compitello G Kinsey C Newman L Smith B Chen SR Klebanov L Salzman P Yakovlev A Land H 《Nature》2008,453(7198):1112-1116
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of cancer is of critical importance to the development of targeted intervention strategies. Identification of such targets, however, is notoriously difficult and unpredictable. Malignant cell transformation requires the cooperation of a few oncogenic mutations that cause substantial reorganization of many cell features and induce complex changes in gene expression patterns. Genes critical to this multifaceted cellular phenotype have therefore only been identified after signalling pathway analysis or on an ad hoc basis. Our observations that cell transformation by cooperating oncogenic lesions depends on synergistic modulation of downstream signalling circuitry suggest that malignant transformation is a highly cooperative process, involving synergy at multiple levels of regulation, including gene expression. Here we show that a large proportion of genes controlled synergistically by loss-of-function p53 and Ras activation are critical to the malignant state of murine and human colon cells. Notably, 14 out of 24 'cooperation response genes' were found to contribute to tumour formation in gene perturbation experiments. In contrast, only 1 in 14 perturbations of the genes responding in a non-synergistic manner had a similar effect. Synergistic control of gene expression by oncogenic mutations thus emerges as an underlying key to malignancy, and provides an attractive rationale for identifying intervention targets in gene networks downstream of oncogenic gain- and loss-of-function mutations. 相似文献
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Wnt proteins are lipid-modified and can act as stem cell growth factors 总被引:93,自引:0,他引:93
Willert K Brown JD Danenberg E Duncan AW Weissman IL Reya T Yates JR Nusse R 《Nature》2003,423(6938):448-452
Wnt signalling is involved in numerous events in animal development, including the proliferation of stem cells and the specification of the neural crest. Wnt proteins are potentially important reagents in expanding specific cell types, but in contrast to other developmental signalling molecules such as hedgehog proteins and the bone morphogenetic proteins, Wnt proteins have never been isolated in an active form. Although Wnt proteins are secreted from cells, secretion is usually inefficient and previous attempts to characterize Wnt proteins have been hampered by their high degree of insolubility. Here we have isolated active Wnt molecules, including the product of the mouse Wnt3a gene. By mass spectrometry, we found the proteins to be palmitoylated on a conserved cysteine. Enzymatic removal of the palmitate or site-directed and natural mutations of the modified cysteine result in loss of activity, and indicate that the lipid is important for signalling. The purified Wnt3a protein induces self-renewal of haematopoietic stem cells, signifying its potential use in tissue engineering. 相似文献
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Zhang J Ding L Holmfeldt L Wu G Heatley SL Payne-Turner D Easton J Chen X Wang J Rusch M Lu C Chen SC Wei L Collins-Underwood JR Ma J Roberts KG Pounds SB Ulyanov A Becksfort J Gupta P Huether R Kriwacki RW Parker M McGoldrick DJ Zhao D Alford D Espy S Bobba KC Song G Pei D Cheng C Roberts S Barbato MI Campana D Coustan-Smith E Shurtleff SA Raimondi SC Kleppe M Cools J Shimano KA Hermiston ML Doulatov S Eppert K Laurenti E Notta F Dick JE Basso G Hunger SP Loh ML Devidas M Wood B Winter S 《Nature》2012,481(7380):157-163
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DT Jones N Jäger M Kool T Zichner B Hutter M Sultan YJ Cho TJ Pugh V Hovestadt AM Stütz T Rausch HJ Warnatz M Ryzhova S Bender D Sturm S Pleier H Cin E Pfaff L Sieber A Wittmann M Remke H Witt S Hutter T Tzaridis J Weischenfeldt B Raeder M Avci V Amstislavskiy M Zapatka UD Weber Q Wang B Lasitschka CC Bartholomae M Schmidt C von Kalle V Ast C Lawerenz J Eils R Kabbe V Benes P van Sluis J Koster R Volckmann D Shih MJ Betts RB Russell S Coco GP Tonini U Schüller V Hans N Graf YJ Kim C Monoranu 《Nature》2012,488(7409):100-105
Medulloblastoma is an aggressively growing tumour, arising in the cerebellum or medulla/brain stem. It is the most common malignant brain tumour in children, and shows tremendous biological and clinical heterogeneity. Despite recent treatment advances, approximately 40% of children experience tumour recurrence, and 30% will die from their disease. Those who survive often have a significantly reduced quality of life. Four tumour subgroups with distinct clinical, biological and genetic profiles are currently identified. WNT tumours, showing activated wingless pathway signalling, carry a favourable prognosis under current treatment regimens. SHH tumours show hedgehog pathway activation, and have an intermediate prognosis. Group 3 and 4 tumours are molecularly less well characterized, and also present the greatest clinical challenges. The full repertoire of genetic events driving this distinction, however, remains unclear. Here we describe an integrative deep-sequencing analysis of 125 tumour-normal pairs, conducted as part of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) PedBrain Tumor Project. Tetraploidy was identified as a frequent early event in Group 3 and 4 tumours, and a positive correlation between patient age and mutation rate was observed. Several recurrent mutations were identified, both in known medulloblastoma-related genes (CTNNB1, PTCH1, MLL2, SMARCA4) and in genes not previously linked to this tumour (DDX3X, CTDNEP1, KDM6A, TBR1), often in subgroup-specific patterns. RNA sequencing confirmed these alterations, and revealed the expression of what are, to our knowledge, the first medulloblastoma fusion genes identified. Chromatin modifiers were frequently altered across all subgroups. These findings enhance our understanding of the genomic complexity and heterogeneity underlying medulloblastoma, and provide several potential targets for new therapeutics, especially for Group 3 and 4 patients. 相似文献
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Berger MF Lawrence MS Demichelis F Drier Y Cibulskis K Sivachenko AY Sboner A Esgueva R Pflueger D Sougnez C Onofrio R Carter SL Park K Habegger L Ambrogio L Fennell T Parkin M Saksena G Voet D Ramos AH Pugh TJ Wilkinson J Fisher S Winckler W Mahan S Ardlie K Baldwin J Simons JW Kitabayashi N MacDonald TY Kantoff PW Chin L Gabriel SB Gerstein MB Golub TR Meyerson M Tewari A Lander ES Getz G Rubin MA Garraway LA 《Nature》2011,470(7333):214-220
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Sasaki T Irie-Sasaki J Horie Y Bachmaier K Fata JE Li M Suzuki A Bouchard D Ho A Redston M Gallinger S Khokha R Mak TW Hawkins PT Stephens L Scherer SW Tsao M Penninger JM 《Nature》2000,406(6798):897-902
Phosphoinositide-3-OH kinases (PI(3)Ks) constitute a family of evolutionarily conserved lipid kinases that regulate a vast array of fundamental cellular responses, including proliferation, transformation, differentiation and protection from apoptosis. PI(3)K-mediated activation of the cell survival kinase PKB/Akt, and negative regulation of PI(3)K signalling by the tumour suppressor PTEN (refs 3, 4) are key regulatory events in tumorigenesis. Thus, a model has arisen that PI(3)Ks promote development of cancers. Here we report that genetic inactivation of the p110gamma catalytic subunit of PI(3)Kgamma (ref. 8) leads to development of invasive colorectal adenocarcinomas in mice. In humans, p110gamma protein expression is lost in primary colorectal adenocarcinomas from patients and in colon cancer cell lines. Overexpression of wild-type or kinase-dead p110gamma in human colon cancer cells with mutations of the tumour suppressors APC and p53, or the oncogenes beta-catenin and Ki-ras, suppressed tumorigenesis. Thus, loss of p110gamma in mice leads to spontaneous, malignant epithelial tumours in the colorectum and p110gamma can block the growth of human colon cancer cells. 相似文献