RRC ID 5824
著者 Tanaka H, Fukamachi K, Futakuchi M, Alexander DB, Long N, Tamamushi S, Minami K, Seino S, Ohara H, Joh T, Tsuda H.
タイトル Mature acinar cells are refractory to carcinoma development by targeted activation of Ras oncogene in adult rats.
ジャーナル Cancer Sci
Abstract Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is one of the most debilitating malignancies in humans. A thorough understanding of the cytogenesis of this disease will aid in establishing successful treatments. We have developed an animal model which uses adult Hras(G12V) and Kras(G12V) transgenic rats in which oncogene expression is regulated by the Cre/loxP system and neoplastic lesions are induced by injection of adenovirus-expressing Cre recombinase. When adenovirus with Cre recombinase under the control of the CMV enhancer/chicken beta-actin (CAG) promoter (Ad-CAG-Cre) is injected into the pancreatic duct of these animals, pancreatic neoplasias develop. Pathologically, the origin of these lesions is duct, intercalated duct, and centroacinar cells, but not acinar cells. The present study was undertaken to test the effect of acinar cell-specific oncogenic ras expression. Adult transgenic rats were injected with adenovirus with Cre recombinase under the control of the acinar cell-specific promoters amylase (Ad-Amy-Cre) and elastase-1 (Ad-Ela-Cre) or under the control of the non-specific CAG promoter. Injection of either Ad-Amy-Cre or Ad-Ela-Cre into the pancreatic ducts of transgenic animals in which oncogenic Kras is tagged with hemagglutinin (HA), HA-Kras(G12V) rats resulted in expression of oncogenic ras in acinar cells but not in duct, intercalated duct, or centroacinar cells. Notably, injected animals did not develop any observable proliferative or neoplastic lesions. In marked contrast, injection of Ad-CAG-Cre resulted in pancreatic cancer development within 4 weeks. These results indicate that adult acinar cells are refractory to Ras oncogene activation and do not develop neoplasia in this model.
巻・号 101(2)
ページ 341-6
公開日 2010-2-1
DOI 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2009.01410.x
PII CAS1410
PMID 19917056
MeSH Animals Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal / etiology* Carcinoma, Pancreatic Ductal / pathology Female Genes, ras* Integrases / physiology Metaplasia Pancreas, Exocrine / pathology* Pancreatic Neoplasms / etiology* Pancreatic Neoplasms / pathology Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley Transgenes
IF 4.966
引用数 12
WOS 分野 ONCOLOGY
リソース情報
遺伝子材料 pCALNL5 (RDB01862)