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Growth hormone is permissive for neoplastic colon growth.

ABSTRACT: Growth hormone (GH) excess in acromegaly is associated with increased precancerous colon polyps and soft tissue adenomas, whereas short-stature humans harboring an inactivating GH receptor mutation do not develop cancer. We show that locally expressed colon GH is abundant in conditions predisposing to colon cancer and in colon adenocarcinoma-associated stromal fibroblasts. Administration of a GH receptor (GHR) blocker in acromegaly patients induced colon p53 and adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), reversing progrowth GH signals. p53 was also induced in skin fibroblasts derived from short-statured humans with mutant GHR. GH-deficient prophet of pituitary-specific positive transcription factor 1 (Prop1)(-/-) mice exhibited induced colon p53 levels, and cross-breeding them with Apc(min+/-) mice that normally develop intestinal and colon tumors resulted in GH-deficient double mutants with markedly decreased tumor number and size. We also demonstrate that GH suppresses p53 and reduces apoptosis in human colon cell lines as well as in induced human pluripotent stem cell-derived intestinal organoids, and confirm in vivo that GH suppresses colon mucosal p53/p21. GH excess leads to decreased colon cell phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN), increased cell survival with down-regulated APC, nuclear ?-catenin accumulation, and increased epithelial-mesenchymal transition factors and colon cell motility. We propose that GH is a molecular component of the "field change" milieu permissive for neoplastic colon growth.

SUBMITTER: Chesnokova V

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4988562 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Growth hormone is permissive for neoplastic colon growth.

Chesnokova Vera V Zonis Svetlana S Zhou Cuiqi C Recouvreux Maria Victoria MV Ben-Shlomo Anat A Araki Takako T Barrett Robert R Workman Michael M Wawrowsky Kolja K Ljubimov Vladimir A VA Uhart Magdalena M Melmed Shlomo S

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160525 23

Growth hormone (GH) excess in acromegaly is associated with increased precancerous colon polyps and soft tissue adenomas, whereas short-stature humans harboring an inactivating GH receptor mutation do not develop cancer. We show that locally expressed colon GH is abundant in conditions predisposing to colon cancer and in colon adenocarcinoma-associated stromal fibroblasts. Administration of a GH receptor (GHR) blocker in acromegaly patients induced colon p53 and adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), ...[more]

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Project description:To determine the effects of RNAi-mediated inhibition of the growth hormone receptor (GHR) gene on tumors and colon cancer cells in vivo.Construction of a eukaryotic vector for human GHR expression, the pcDNA6.2-GW/EmGFP-small interfering RNAs (siRNAs)-GHR plasmid, was used to inhibit GHR expression. Thirty-six BALB/c nude mice were randomly divided into groups and treated with normal saline (NS), recombinant plasmid (G?), growth hormone (GH), 5-fluorouracil (FU), G?+FU or G?+FU+GH. Each nude mouse was subcutaneously inoculated with 1 × 10(7) human colon cancer SW480 cells; the nude mice were weighed before inoculation and on the 2(nd), 5(th), 8(th), 11(th), 14(th) and 17(th) day after inoculation. All nude mice were sacrificed after 17 d. Each subcutaneous tumor was removed and studied. Tumor volume was measured on the 5(th), 8(th), 11(th), 14(th) and 17(th) day after inoculation. The expression of GHR protein in the tumor tissue was detected by Western blotting analysis, and the differences in GHR mRNA expression in the tumor tissue were detected by real-time quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.Compared to the control group, the weights of the inoculated nude mice on the 17(th) day after inoculation were: G?: 21.60 ± 0.71 g, GH: 21.64 ± 0.45 g, FU: 18.94 ± 0.47 g, FU+G?: 19.40 ± 0.60 g, G?+FU+GH: 21.04 ± 0.78 g vs NS: 20.68 ± 0.66 g, P < 0.05; the tumor volumes after the subcutaneous inoculation were: G?: 9.71 ± 3.82 mm(3), FU: 11.54 ± 2.42 mm(3), FU+G?: 11.42 ± 1.11 mm(3), G?+FU+GH: 10.47 ± 1.02 mm(3) vs NS: 116.81 ± 10.61 mm(3), P < 0.05. Compared to the GH group, the tumor volumes were significantly decreased in the experimental groups. The GHR protein expression (G?: 0.39 ± 0.02, FU: 0.40 ± 0.02, FU+G?: 0.38 ± 0.01, G?+FU+GH: 0.39 ± 0.01 vs NS: 0.94 ± 0.02, P < 0.05) and the GHR mRNA expression (G?: 14.12 ± 0.10, FU: 15.15 ± 0.44, FU+G?: 16.46 ± 0.27, G?+FU+GH: 15.37 ± 0.57 vs NS: 12.63 ± 0.14, P < 0.05) were significantly decreased and increased, respectively, in the experimental groups.Inhibition of GHR in human colon cancer SW480 cells resulted in anti-tumor effects in nude mice.

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