PUBLICATION
RETRACTED: Chemical inhibition reveals differential requirements of signaling pathways in krasV12- and Myc-induced liver tumors in transgenic zebrafish.
- Authors
- Yan, C., Yang, Q., Huo, X., Li, H., Zhou, L., Gong, Z.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170406-6
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- Scientific Reports 7: 45796 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Gong, Zhiyuan, Zhou, Li
- Keywords
- Cancer models, Hepatocellular carcinoma
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/metabolism*
- Disease Models, Animal
- Fibroblast Growth Factors/antagonists & inhibitors*
- Genes, myc*
- Liver Neoplasms/metabolism*
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/metabolism
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)/genetics*
- Signal Transduction
- Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A/antagonists & inhibitors*
- Zebrafish
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 28378824 Full text @ Sci. Rep.
Citation
Yan, C., Yang, Q., Huo, X., Li, H., Zhou, L., Gong, Z. (2017) RETRACTED: Chemical inhibition reveals differential requirements of signaling pathways in krasV12- and Myc-induced liver tumors in transgenic zebrafish.. Scientific Reports. 7:45796.
Abstract
Previously we have generated inducible liver tumor models by transgenic expression of an oncogene and robust tumorigenesis can be rapidly induced by activation of the oncogene in both juvenile and adult fish. In the present study, we aimed at chemical intervention of tumorigenesis for understanding molecular pathways of tumorigenesis and for potential development of a chemical screening tool for anti-cancer drug discovery. Thus, we evaluated the roles of several major signaling pathways in krasV12- or Myc-induced liver tumors by using several small molecule inhibitors: SU5402 and SU6668 for VEGF/FGF signaling; IWR1 and cardionogen 1 for Wnt signaling; and cyclopamine and Gant61 for Hedgehog signaling. Inhibition of VEGF/FGF signaling was found to deter both Myc- and krasV12-induced liver tumorigenesis while suppression of Wnt signaling relaxed only Myc- but not krasV12-induced liver tumorigenesis. Inhibiting Hedgehog signaling did not suppress either krasV12 or Myc-induced tumors. The suppression of liver tumorigenesis was accompanied with a decrease of cell proliferation, increase of apoptosis, distorted liver histology. Collectively, our observations suggested the requirement of VEGF/FGF signaling but not the hedgehog signaling in liver tumorigenesis in both transgenic fry. However, Wnt signaling appeared to be required for liver tumorigenesis only in Myc but not krasV12 transgenic zebrafish.
Errata / Notes
This article is corrected by ZDB-PUB-231130-24.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping