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Adipocyte derived paracrine mediators of mammary ductal morphogenesis controlled by retinoic acid receptors.


ABSTRACT: We generated a transgenic (Tg)-mouse model expressing a dominant negative-(DN)-RAR?, (RAR?G303E) under adipocytes-specific promoter to explore the paracrine role of adipocyte retinoic acid receptors (RARs) in mammary morphogenesis. Transgenic adipocytes had reduced level of RAR?, ? and ?, which coincided with a severely underdeveloped pubertal and mature ductal tree with profoundly decreased epithelial cell proliferation. Transplantation experiments of mammary epithelium and of whole mammary glands implicated a fat-pad dependent paracrine mechanism in the stunted phenotype of the epithelial ductal tree. Co-cultures of primary adipocytes, or in vitro differentiated adipocyte cell line, with mammary epithelium showed that when activated, adipocyte-RARs contribute to generation of secreted proliferative and pro-migratory factors. Gene expression microarrays revealed a large number of genes regulated by adipocyte-RARs. Among them, pleiotrophin (PTN) was identified as the paracrine effectors of epithelial cell migration. Its expression was found to be strongly inhibited by DN-RAR?, an inhibition relieved by pharmacological doses of all-trans retinoic acid (atRA) in culture and in vivo. Moreover, adipocyte-PTHR, another atRA responsive gene, was found to be an up-stream regulator of PTN. Overall, these results support the existence of a novel paracrine loop controlled by adipocyte-RAR that regulates the mammary ductal tree morphogenesis.

SUBMITTER: Marzan CV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3021183 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Adipocyte derived paracrine mediators of mammary ductal morphogenesis controlled by retinoic acid receptors.

Marzan Christine V CV   Kupumbati Tara S TS   Bertran Silvina P SP   Samuels TraceyAnn T   Leibovitch Boris B   Mira-y-Lopez Rafael R   Ossowski Liliana L   Farias Eduardo F EF  

Developmental biology 20101023 2


We generated a transgenic (Tg)-mouse model expressing a dominant negative-(DN)-RARα, (RARαG303E) under adipocytes-specific promoter to explore the paracrine role of adipocyte retinoic acid receptors (RARs) in mammary morphogenesis. Transgenic adipocytes had reduced level of RARα, β and γ, which coincided with a severely underdeveloped pubertal and mature ductal tree with profoundly decreased epithelial cell proliferation. Transplantation experiments of mammary epithelium and of whole mammary gla  ...[more]

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