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Project description:Mesenchymal-epithelial interactions play a critical role in organ development, stem cells and disease. During intestinal development, pseudostratified epithelia undergo dramatic morphogenesis called villification, to form finger-like projections, in which mesenchymal cell clustering and muscle layers play a key role. In the adult, the gut mesenchyme is proposed as a key intestinal stem cell niche providing essential niche signals such as Wnt ligands, while the TGF beta signaling mediated gut stromal program is critical for cancer progression. However, how these signals are produced is currently unknown. In the gut, Hedgehog (Hh) signaling acts strictly in a paracrine manner: Hh ligands are expressed in the epithelium and activate signaling exclusively in the mesenchyme. Notably, Hh signaling is not only essential for mesenchymal clustering and muscle differentiation, it is also involved in intestinal tumorigenesis. To investigate Hh mediated mechanisms, we analyzed mice deleted for key Hh negative regulators, Sufu and/or Spop in the gut mesenchyme, and demonstrated their dosage dependent role in the negative regulation of Hh signaling. Although these mutants exhibit abnormal mesenchymal cell growth and functionally defective muscle layers, villification is completed with proper mesenchymal clustering, implying a permissive role for Hh signaling. These mesenchymal defects are partially rescued by Gli2 reduction, demonstrating the significance of its transcriptional regulation. Surprisingly, in contrast to its known inhibitory role in epithelial proliferation, abnormal Hh activation in the gut mesenchyme leads to increased epithelial proliferation. Corroborating this data, Sufu reduction is sufficient to promote intestinal tumorigenesis, while Gli2 heterozygosity suppresses it. To define GLI2-mediated downstream mechanisms, we mapped its binding sites and analyzed gene expression genome-wide, identifying one of the most robust Hh direct targetome data sets ever reported. This work reveals the GLI2 transcriptional regulation of Wnt and TGF beta pathways in stem cell proliferation and muscle differentiation, providing mechanistic insight into the intestinal stem cell niche in development and tumorigenesis.
2019-06-04 | GSE103690 | GEO
Project description:Mesenchymal-epithelial interactions play a critical role in organ development, stem cells and disease. During intestinal development, pseudostratified epithelia undergo dramatic morphogenesis called villification, to form finger-like projections, in which mesenchymal cell clustering and muscle layers play a key role. In the adult, the gut mesenchyme is proposed as a key intestinal stem cell niche providing essential niche signals such as Wnt ligands, while the TGF beta signaling mediated gut stromal program is critical for cancer progression. However, how these signals are produced is currently unknown. In the gut, Hedgehog (Hh) signaling acts strictly in a paracrine manner: Hh ligands are expressed in the epithelium and activate signaling exclusively in the mesenchyme. Notably, Hh signaling is not only essential for mesenchymal clustering and muscle differentiation, it is also involved in intestinal tumorigenesis. To investigate Hh mediated mechanisms, we analyzed mice deleted for key Hh negative regulators, Sufu and/or Spop in the gut mesenchyme, and demonstrated their dosage dependent role in the negative regulation of Hh signaling. Although these mutants exhibit abnormal mesenchymal cell growth and functionally defective muscle layers, villification is completed with proper mesenchymal clustering, implying a permissive role for Hh signaling. These mesenchymal defects are partially rescued by Gli2 reduction, demonstrating the significance of its transcriptional regulation. Surprisingly, in contrast to its known inhibitory role in epithelial proliferation, abnormal Hh activation in the gut mesenchyme leads to increased epithelial proliferation. Corroborating this data, Sufu reduction is sufficient to promote intestinal tumorigenesis, while Gli2 heterozygosity suppresses it. To define GLI2-mediated downstream mechanisms, we mapped its binding sites and analyzed gene expression genome-wide, identifying one of the most robust Hh direct targetome data sets ever reported. This work reveals the GLI2 transcriptional regulation of Wnt and TGF beta pathways in stem cell proliferation and muscle differentiation, providing mechanistic insight into the intestinal stem cell niche in development and tumorigenesis.
2019-06-04 | GSE103683 | GEO
Project description:GLI2-mediated mesenchymal Hh signaling induces stem cell niche signals in intestinal development and tumorigenesis
| PRJNA404062 | ENA
Project description:The initiation of an intestinal tumour is a probabilistic process that depends on the competition between mutant and normal epithelial stem cells in crypts1. Intestinal stem cells are closely associated with a diverse but poorly characterized network of mesenchymal cell types2,3. However, whether the physiological mesenchymal microenvironment of mutant stem cells affects tumour initiation remains unknown. Here we provide in vivo evidence that the mesenchymal niche controls tumour initiation in trans. By characterizing the heterogeneity of the intestinal mesenchyme using single-cell RNA-sequencing analysis, we identified a population of rare pericryptal Ptgs2-expressing fibroblasts that constitutively process arachidonic acid into highly labile prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). Specific ablation of Ptgs2 in fibroblasts was sufficient to prevent tumour initiation in two different models of sporadic, autochthonous tumorigenesis. Mechanistically, single-cell RNA-sequencing analyses of a mesenchymal niche model showed that fibroblast-derived PGE2 drives the expansion ?f a population of Sca-1+ reserve-like stem cells. These express a strong regenerative/tumorigenic program, driven by the Hippo pathway effector Yap. In vivo, Yap is indispensable for Sca-1+ cell expansion and early tumour initiation and displays a nuclear localization in both mouse and human adenomas. Using organoid experiments, we identified a molecular mechanism whereby PGE2 promotes Yap dephosphorylation, nuclear translocation and transcriptional activity by signalling through the receptor Ptger4. Epithelial-specific ablation of Ptger4 misdirected the regenerative reprogramming of stem cells and prevented Sca-1+ cell expansion and sporadic tumour initiation in mutant mice, thereby demonstrating the robust paracrine control of tumour-initiating stem cells by PGE2-Ptger4. Analyses of patient-derived organoids established that PGE2-PTGER4 also regulates stem-cell function in humans. Our study demonstrates that initiation of colorectal cancer is orchestrated by the mesenchymal niche and reveals a mechanism by which rare pericryptal Ptgs2-expressing fibroblasts exert paracrine control over tumour-initiating stem cells via the druggable PGE2-Ptger4-Yap signalling axis.
| S-EPMC7490650 | biostudies-literature
Project description:MyD88, an adaptor molecule downstream of innate pathways, plays a significant tumor-promoting role in sporadic intestinal carcinogenesis of the Apcmin/+ model, which carries a mutation in the Apc gene. Here, we show that deletion of MyD88 in intestinal mesenchymal cells (IMCs) significantly reduces tumorigenesis in this model. This phenotype is associated with decreased epithelial cell proliferation, altered inflammatory and tumorigenic immune cell infiltration, and modified gene expression similar to complete MyD88 knockout mice. Genetic deletion of TLR4, but not interleukin-1 receptor (IL-1R), in IMCs led to altered molecular profiles and reduction of intestinal tumors similar to the MyD88 deficiency. Ex vivo analysis in IMCs indicated that these effects could be mediated through downstream signals involving growth factors and inflammatory and extracellular matrix (ECM)-regulating genes, also found in human cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs). Our results provide direct evidence that during tumorigenesis, IMCs and CAFs are activated by innate TLR4/MyD88-mediated signals and promote carcinogenesis in the intestine.
| S-EPMC6334226 | biostudies-literature
Project description:This study shows that the TLR4/MyD88 pathway in intestinal mesenchymal cells promotes intestinal carcinogenesis in the APCmin mouse model.
2019-01-15 | GSE119341 | GEO
Project description:Although multiple signaling pathways work synergistically in various niches to control stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, it remains poorly understood how they cooperate with one another molecularly. In the Drosophila ovary, Hh and Wnt pathways function in the niche to promote germline stem cell (GSC) progeny differentiation. Here, we show that glypican Dlp-mediated Hh and Wnt signaling interdependence operates in the niche to promote GSC progeny differentiation by preventing BMP signaling. Hh/Wnt-mediated dlp repression is essential for their signaling interdependence in niche cells and for GSC progeny differentiation by preventing BMP signaling. Mechanistically, Hh and Wnt downstream transcription factors directly bind to the same dlp regulatory region and recruit corepressors composed of transcription factor Croc and Egg/H3K9 trimethylase to repress Dlp expression. Therefore, our study reveals a novel mechanism for Hh/Wnt signaling-mediated direct dlp repression and a novel regulatory mechanism for Dlp-mediated Hh/Wnt signaling interdependence in the GSC differentiation niche.
| S-EPMC7220319 | biostudies-literature
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2019-12-21 | GSE142431 | GEO
Project description:Neural precursors (NPs) present in the hippocampus can be modulated by several neurogenic stimuli, including environmental enrichment (EE) acting through BDNF-TrkB signaling. We have recently identified NPs in meninges; however, the meningeal niche response to pro-neurogenic stimuli has never been investigated. To this aim, we analyzed the effects of EE exposure on NP distribution in mouse brain meninges. Following neurogenic stimuli, although we did not detect modification of the meningeal cell number and proliferation, we observed an increased number of neural precursors in the meninges. A lineage tracing experiment suggested that EE-induced β3-Tubulin+ immature neuronal cells present in the meninges originated, at least in part, from GLAST+ radial glia cells. To investigate the molecular mechanism responsible for meningeal reaction to EE exposure, we studied the BDNF-TrkB interaction. Treatment with ANA-12, a TrkB non-competitive inhibitor, abolished the EE-induced meningeal niche changes. Overall, these data showed, for the first time, that EE exposure induced meningeal niche remodeling through TrkB-mediated signaling. Fluoxetine treatment further confirmed the meningeal niche response, suggesting it may also respond to other pharmacological neurogenic stimuli. A better understanding of the neurogenic stimuli modulation for meninges may be useful to improve the effectiveness of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric treatments.
| S-EPMC8508649 | biostudies-literature
Project description:OBJECTIVES:Oncogenic potential of Notch signaling and its cooperation with other factors to affect proliferation are widely established. Notch exhibits a cooperative effect with loss of a cell polarity gene, scribble to induce neoplastic overgrowth. Oncogenic Ras also show cooperative effect with loss of cell polarity genes such as scribble (scrib), lethal giant larvae (lgl) and discs large to induce neoplastic overgrowth and invasion. Our study aims at assessing the cooperation of activated Notch with loss of function of lgl in tumor overgrowth, and the mode of JNK signaling activation in this context. RESULTS:In the present study, we use Drosophila as an in vivo model to show the synergy between activated Notch (N act ) and loss of function of lgl (lgl-IR) in tumor progression. Coexpression of N act and lgl-IR results in massive tumor overgrowth and displays hallmarks of cancer, such as MMP1 upregulation and loss of epithelial integrity. We further show activation of JNK signaling and upregulation of its receptor, Grindelwald in N act /lgl-IR tumor. In contrast to previously described Notch act /scrib-/- tumor, our experiments in N act /lgl-IR tumor showed the presence of dying cells along with tumorous overgrowth.
| S-EPMC5902968 | biostudies-literature