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Deficiency in metabolic regulators PPAR? and PTEN cooperates to drive keratinizing squamous metaplasia in novel models of human tissue regeneration.

ABSTRACT: Hindgut-derived endoderm can differentiate into rectal, prostatic, and bladder phenotypes. Stromal-epithelial interactions are crucial for this development; however, the precise mechanisms by which epithelium responds to stromal cues remain unknown. We have previously reported ectopic expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-?2 (PPAR?2) increased androgen receptor expression and promoted differentiation of mouse prostate epithelium. PPAR? is also implicated in urothelial differentiation. Herein we demonstrate that knockdown of PPAR?2 in benign human prostate epithelial cells (BHPrEs) promotes urothelial transdifferentiation. Furthermore, in vitro and in vivo heterotypic tissue regeneration models with embryonic bladder mesenchyme promoted urothelial differentiation of PPAR?2-deficient BHPrE cells, and deficiency of both PPAR? isoforms 1 and 2 arrested differentiation. Because PTEN deficiency is cooperative in urothelial pathogenesis, we engineered BHPrE cells with combined knockdown of PPAR? and PTEN and performed heterotypic recombination experiments using embryonic bladder mesenchyme. Whereas PTEN deficiency alone induced latent squamous differentiation in BHPrE cells, combined PPAR? and PTEN deficiency accelerated the development of keratinizing squamous metaplasia (KSM). We further confirmed via immunohistochemistry that gene expression changes in metaplastic recombinants reflected human urothelium undergoing KSM. In summary, these data suggest that PPAR? isoform expression provides a molecular basis for observations that adult human epithelium can be transdifferentiated on the basis of heterotypic mesenchymal induction. These data also implicate PPAR? and PTEN inactivation in the development of KSM.

SUBMITTER: Strand DW

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3562729 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Deficiency in metabolic regulators PPARγ and PTEN cooperates to drive keratinizing squamous metaplasia in novel models of human tissue regeneration.

Strand Douglas W DW DeGraff David J DJ Jiang Ming M Jiang Ming M Sameni Mansoureh M Franco Omar E OE Love Harold D HD Hayward William J WJ Lin-Tsai Opal O Wang Anne Y AY Cates Justin M M JM Sloane Bonnie F BF Matusik Robert J RJ Hayward Simon W SW

The American journal of pathology 20121206 2

Hindgut-derived endoderm can differentiate into rectal, prostatic, and bladder phenotypes. Stromal-epithelial interactions are crucial for this development; however, the precise mechanisms by which epithelium responds to stromal cues remain unknown. We have previously reported ectopic expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ2 (PPARγ2) increased androgen receptor expression and promoted differentiation of mouse prostate epithelium. PPARγ is also implicated in urothelial differen ...[more]

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Deficiency in metabolic regulators PPAR? and PTEN cooperates to drive keratinizing squamous metaplasia in novel models of human tissue regeneration.

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Deficiency in metabolic regulators PPARγ and PTEN cooperates to drive keratinizing squamous metaplasia in novel models of human tissue regeneration.

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