TY - JOUR
T1 - Non-stem cell lineages as an alternative origin of intestinal tumorigenesis in the context of inflammation
AU - Verhagen, Mathijs P.
AU - Joosten, Rosalie
AU - Schmitt, Mark
AU - Välimäki, Niko
AU - Sacchetti, Andrea
AU - Rajamäki, Kristiina
AU - Choi, Jiahn
AU - Procopio, Paola
AU - Silva, Sara
AU - van der Steen, Berdine
AU - van den Bosch, Thierry P.P.
AU - Seinstra, Danielle
AU - de Vries, Annemarie C.
AU - Doukas, Michail
AU - Augenlicht, Leonard H.
AU - Aaltonen, Lauri A.
AU - Fodde, Riccardo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - According to conventional views, colon cancer originates from stem cells. However, inflammation, a key risk factor for colon cancer, has been shown to suppress intestinal stemness. Here, we used Paneth cells as a model to assess the capacity of differentiated lineages to trigger tumorigenesis in the context of inflammation in mice. Upon inflammation, Paneth cell-specific Apc mutations led to intestinal tumors reminiscent not only of those arising in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, but also of a larger fraction of human sporadic colon cancers. The latter is possibly because of the inflammatory consequences of western-style dietary habits, a major colon cancer risk factor. Machine learning methods designed to predict the cell-of-origin of cancer from patient-derived tumor samples confirmed that, in a substantial fraction of sporadic cases, the origins of colon cancer reside in secretory lineages and not in stem cells.
AB - According to conventional views, colon cancer originates from stem cells. However, inflammation, a key risk factor for colon cancer, has been shown to suppress intestinal stemness. Here, we used Paneth cells as a model to assess the capacity of differentiated lineages to trigger tumorigenesis in the context of inflammation in mice. Upon inflammation, Paneth cell-specific Apc mutations led to intestinal tumors reminiscent not only of those arising in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, but also of a larger fraction of human sporadic colon cancers. The latter is possibly because of the inflammatory consequences of western-style dietary habits, a major colon cancer risk factor. Machine learning methods designed to predict the cell-of-origin of cancer from patient-derived tumor samples confirmed that, in a substantial fraction of sporadic cases, the origins of colon cancer reside in secretory lineages and not in stem cells.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41588-024-01801-y
DO - 10.1038/s41588-024-01801-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85196353316
SN - 1061-4036
VL - 56
SP - 1456
EP - 1467
JO - Nature Genetics
JF - Nature Genetics
IS - 7
ER -