PUBLICATION
Inducible Intestine-Specific Expression of krasV12 Triggers Intestinal Tumorigenesis In Transgenic Zebrafish.
- Authors
- Lu, J.W., Raghuram, D., Fong, P.A., Gong, Z.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-181106-9
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.) 20: 1187-1197 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Gong, Zhiyuan, Lu, Jeng-Wei
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Biomarkers
- Cell Proliferation
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics*
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/metabolism
- DNA Transposable Elements
- Disease Models, Animal
- Gene Expression*
- Gene Order
- Genes, Reporter
- Genetic Vectors/genetics
- Intestinal Mucosa/metabolism*
- Intestinal Mucosa/pathology
- Mutation
- Phosphorylation
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins p21(ras)/genetics*
- Signal Transduction
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 30390498 Full text @ Neoplasia
Citation
Lu, J.W., Raghuram, D., Fong, P.A., Gong, Z. (2018) Inducible Intestine-Specific Expression of krasV12 Triggers Intestinal Tumorigenesis In Transgenic Zebrafish.. Neoplasia (New York, N.Y.). 20:1187-1197.
Abstract
KRAS mutations are a major risk factor in colorectal cancers. In particular, a point mutation of KRAS of amino acid 12, such as KRASV12, renders it stable activity in oncogenesis. We found that krasV12 promotes intestinal carcinogenesis by generating a transgenic zebrafish line with inducible krasV12 expression in the intestine, Tg(ifabp:EGFP-krasV12). The transgenic fish generated exhibited significant increases in the rates of intestinal epithelial outgrowth, proliferation, and cross talk in the active Ras signaling pathway involving in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). These results provide in vivo evidence of Ras pathway activation via krasV12 overexpression. Long-term transgenic expression of krasV12 resulted in enteritis, epithelial hyperplasia, and tubular adenoma in adult fish. This was accompanied by increased levels of the signaling proteins p-Erk and p-Akt and by downregulation of the EMT marker E-cadherin. Furthermore, we also observed a synergistic effect of krasV12 expression and dextran sodium sulfate treatment to enhance intestinal tumor in zebrafish. Our results demonstrate that krasV12 overexpression induces intestinal tumorigenesis in zebrafish, which mimics intestinal tumor formation in humans. Thus, our transgenic zebrafish may provide a valuable in vivo platform that can be used to investigate tumor initiation and anticancer drugs for gastrointestinal cancers.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping