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Vitamin D3 suppresses morphological evolution of the cribriform cancerous phenotype

Deevi, Ravi K., McClements, Jane, McCloskey, Karen D., Fatehullah, Aliya, Tkocz, Dorota, Javadi, Arman, Higginson, Robyn, Marsh Durban, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1645-1618, Jansen, Marnix, Clarke, Alan, Loughrey, Maurice B. and Campbell, Frederick C. 2016. Vitamin D3 suppresses morphological evolution of the cribriform cancerous phenotype. Oncotarget 7 , pp. 49042-49064. 10.18632/oncotarget.8863

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Abstract

Development of cribriform morphology (CM) heralds malignant change in human colon but lack of mechanistic understanding hampers preventive therapy. This study investigated CM pathobiology in three-dimensional (3D) Caco-2 culture models of colorectal glandular architecture, assessed translational relevance and tested effects of 1,25(OH)2D3,theactive form of vitamin D. CM evolution was driven by oncogenic perturbation of the apical polarity (AP) complex comprising PTEN, CDC42 and PRKCZ (phosphatase and tensin homolog, cell division cycle 42 and protein kinase C zeta). Suppression of AP genes initiated a spatiotemporal cascade of mitotic spindle misorientation, apical membrane misalignment and aberrant epithelial configuration. Collectively, these events promoted “Swiss cheese-like” cribriform morphology (CM) comprising multiple abnormal “back to back” lumens surrounded by atypical stratified epithelium, in 3D colorectal gland models. Intestinal cancer driven purely by PTEN-deficiency in transgenic mice developed CM and in human CRC, CM associated with PTEN and PRKCZ readouts. Treatment of PTEN-deficient 3D cultures with 1,25(OH)2D3 upregulated PTEN, rapidly activated CDC42 and PRKCZ, corrected mitotic spindle alignment and suppressed CM development. Conversely, mutationally-activated KRAS blocked1,25(OH)2D3 rescue of glandular architecture. We conclude that 1,25(OH)2D3 upregulates AP signalling to reverse CM in a KRAS wild type (wt), clinically predictive CRC model system. Vitamin D could be developed as therapy to suppress inception or progression of a subset of colorectal tumors.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Publisher: Impact Journals LLC
ISSN: 1949-2553
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 19 May 2016
Date of Acceptance: 28 February 2016
Last Modified: 04 May 2023 16:10
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/90186

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