c-Fos induces chondrogenic tumor formation in immortalized human mesenchymal progenitor cells

Autor: Francisca Mulero, Probir Chakravarty, Alexander Waclawiczek, Raquel Pérez-Tavarez, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-Milla, Ander Abarrategi, Stefano Gambera, Kevin Rouault-Pierre, Javier García-Castro, Arantzazu Alfranca, Cesar Trigueros, Samuel Navarro, Dominique Bonnet
Přispěvatelé: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Comunidad de Madrid, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Regional Development Fund
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2018)
Repisalud
Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Popis: Mesenchymal progenitor cells (MPCs) have been hypothesized as cells of origin for sarcomas, and c-Fos transcription factor has been showed to act as an oncogene in bone tumors. In this study, we show c-Fos is present in most sarcomas with chondral phenotype, while multiple other genes are related to c-Fos expression pattern. To further define the role of c-Fos in sarcomagenesis, we expressed it in primary human MPCs (hMPCs), immortalized hMPCs and transformed murine MPCs (mMPCs). In immortalized hMPCs, c-Fos expression generated morphological changes, reduced mobility capacity and impaired adipogenic- and osteogenic-differentiation potentials. Remarkably, immortalized hMPCs or mMPCs expressing c-Fos generated tumors harboring a chondrogenic phenotype and morphology. Thus, here we show that c-Fos protein has a key role in sarcomas and that c-Fos expression in immortalized MPCs yields cell transformation and chondrogenic tumor formation. This work was supported by grants from the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS: PI11/00377 to J.G.-C.; and RTICC: RD12/0036/0027 to J.G-C, RD12/0036/0020 to S.M.) and the Madrid Regional Government (CellCAM; P2010/BMD-2420 to J.G.-C) in Spain. A.A. was supported by Juan de la Cierva program of the Spanish Plan Nacional (MINECO) and Sara Borrell program of the ISCIII/FEDER. A.Al. was supported by the “Miguel Servet” program of the ISCIII/FEDER. We gratefully acknowledge support from Asociación Pablo Ugarte (CIF G86121019) and AFANION (CIF G02223733). The experiments were approved by the appropriate committees. Sí
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