Noncanonical Wnt signaling plays an important role in modulating canonical Wnt-regulated stemness, proliferation and terminal differentiation of hepatic progenitors.
机构:[1]Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases of The Ministry of Education of China, Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.[2]Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.[3]Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, and The Affiliated Hospitals of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.[4]Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, West China Hospital and West China School of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.四川大学华西医院[5]Departments of Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, The Affiliated Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.[6]Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Bioengineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.[7]Department of Emergency Medicine, Beijing Hospital, Beijing, China.[8]Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science &Technology, Wuhan, China.华中科技大学同济医学院附属协和医院[9]Department of Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Diagnostics, The Affiliated Yantai Hospital, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China.
The liver provides vital metabolic, exocrine and endocrine functions in the body as such pathological conditions of the liver lead to high morbidity and mortality. The liver is highly regenerative and contains facultative stem cells that become activated during injury to replicate to fully recover mass and function. Canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling plays an important role in regulating the proliferation and differentiation of liver progenitor cells during liver regeneration. However, possible roles of noncanonical Wnts in liver development and regeneration remain undefined. We previously established a reversibly-immortalized hepatic progenitor cell line (iHPx), which retains hepatic differentiation potential. Here, we analyze the expression pattern of the essential components of both canonical and noncanonical Wnt signaling pathways at different postnatal stages of mouse liver tissues and iHPx cells. We find that noncanonical Wnt4, Wnt5a, Wnt9b, Wnt10a and Wnt10b, are highly expressed concordantly with the high levels of canonical Wnts in late stages of liver tissues. Wnt5a, Wnt9b, Wnt10a and Wnt10b are able to antagonize Wnt3a-induced β-catenin/TCF activity, reduce the stemness of iHPx cells, and promote hepatic differentiation of liver progenitors. Stem cell implantation assay demonstrates that Wnt5a, Wnt9b, Wnt10a and Wnt10b can inhibit cell proliferation and promote hepatic differentiation of the iHPx progenitor cells. Our results strongly suggest that noncanonical Wnts may play an important role in fine-tuning Wnt/β-catenin functions during liver development and liver regeneration. Thus, understanding regulatory mechanisms governing proliferation and differentiation of liver progenitor cells may hold great promise to facilitate liver regeneration and/or progenitor cell-based therapies for liver diseases.
基金:
The reported work was supported in part by
research grants from the National Institutes of Health
(AT004418, AR50142 to TCH and RCH), the 973 Program of Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
of China (#2011CB707900 to TCH), the Major National
S & T Program (2013ZX10002002 to ALH), the Major
Project of Chongqing Science & Technology Commission
(cstc2013jcyjC10002 to ALH), and the Natural Science
Foundation Project of CQ CSTC (2010BB5359 to ALH
and HT). This work was also supported in part by The
University of Chicago Core Facility Subsidy grant
from the National Center for Advancing Translational
Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health
through Grant UL1 TR000430
第一作者机构:[1]Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases of The Ministry of Education of China, Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China.[2]Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Fan Jiaming,Wei Qiang,Liao Junyi,et al.Noncanonical Wnt signaling plays an important role in modulating canonical Wnt-regulated stemness, proliferation and terminal differentiation of hepatic progenitors.[J].ONCOTARGET.2017,8(16):27105-27119.doi:10.18632/oncotarget.15637.
APA:
Fan Jiaming,Wei Qiang,Liao Junyi,Zou Yulong,Song Dongzhe...&Tang Hua.(2017).Noncanonical Wnt signaling plays an important role in modulating canonical Wnt-regulated stemness, proliferation and terminal differentiation of hepatic progenitors..ONCOTARGET,8,(16)
MLA:
Fan Jiaming,et al."Noncanonical Wnt signaling plays an important role in modulating canonical Wnt-regulated stemness, proliferation and terminal differentiation of hepatic progenitors.".ONCOTARGET 8..16(2017):27105-27119