PMID- 22342966 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120618 LR - 20240104 IS - 1528-0012 (Electronic) IS - 0016-5085 (Linking) VI - 142 IP - 5 DP - 2012 May TI - Disruption of Trp53 in livers of mice induces formation of carcinomas with bilineal differentiation. PG - 1229-1239.e3 LID - 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.02.009 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND & AIMS: p53 limits the self-renewal of stem cells from various tissues. Loss of p53, in combination with other oncogenic events, results in aberrant self-renewal and transformation of progenitor cells. It is not known whether loss of p53 is sufficient to induce tumor formation in liver. METHODS: We used AlfpCre mice to create mice with liver-specific disruption of Trp53 (AlfpCre(+)Trp53(Delta2-10/Delta2-10) mice). We analyzed colony formation and genomic features and gene expression patterns in liver cells during hepatocarcinogenesis in mice with homozygous, heterozygous, and no disruption of Trp53. RESULTS: Liver-specific disruption of Trp53 consistently induced formation of liver carcinomas that had bilineal differentiation. In nontransformed liver cells and cultured primary liver cells, loss of p53 (but not p21) resulted in chromosomal imbalances and increased clonogenic capacity of liver progenitor cells (LPCs) and hepatocytes. Primary cultures of hepatocytes and LPCs from AlfpCre(+)Trp53(Delta2-10/Delta2-10) mice, but not Cdkn1a(-/-) mice, formed tumors with bilineal differentiation when transplanted into immunocompromised mice. Spontaneous liver tumors that developed in AlfpCre(+)Trp53(Delta2-10/Delta2-10) mice had significant but complex alterations in expression of Rb checkpoint genes compared with chemically induced liver tumors that developed mice with wild-type Trp53. CONCLUSIONS: Deletion of p53 from livers of mice is sufficient to induce tumor formation. The tumors have bilineal differentiation and dysregulation of Rb checkpoint genes. CI - Copyright (c) 2012 AGA Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Katz, Sarah-Fee AU - Katz SF AD - Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max Planck Research Group on Stem Cell Aging, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. FAU - Lechel, Andre AU - Lechel A FAU - Obenauf, Anna C AU - Obenauf AC FAU - Begus-Nahrmann, Yvonne AU - Begus-Nahrmann Y FAU - Kraus, Johann M AU - Kraus JM FAU - Hoffmann, Eva M AU - Hoffmann EM FAU - Duda, Johanna AU - Duda J FAU - Eshraghi, Parisa AU - Eshraghi P FAU - Hartmann, Daniel AU - Hartmann D FAU - Liss, Birgit AU - Liss B FAU - Schirmacher, Peter AU - Schirmacher P FAU - Kestler, Hans A AU - Kestler HA FAU - Speicher, Michael R AU - Speicher MR FAU - Rudolph, K Lenhard AU - Rudolph KL LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120215 PL - United States TA - Gastroenterology JT - Gastroenterology JID - 0374630 RN - 0 (CDKN1A protein, human) RN - 0 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21) RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) SB - IM CIN - Gastroenterology. 2012 May;142(5):1066-9. PMID: 22449579 MH - Aging MH - Animals MH - Cell Differentiation MH - Cell Transformation, Neoplastic MH - Chromosomal Instability MH - Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p21/physiology MH - Genes, Retinoblastoma MH - Liver/*pathology MH - Liver Neoplasms, Experimental/*etiology/genetics/pathology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*physiology EDAT- 2012/02/22 06:00 MHDA- 2012/06/19 06:00 CRDT- 2012/02/21 06:00 PHST- 2011/06/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/01/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2012/02/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/02/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/02/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/06/19 06:00 [medline] AID - S0016-5085(12)00204-1 [pii] AID - 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.02.009 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Gastroenterology. 2012 May;142(5):1229-1239.e3. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2012.02.009. Epub 2012 Feb 15.