Deficiency of FLCN in mouse kidney led to development of polycystic kidneys and renal neoplasia |
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Authors: | Chen Jindong Futami Kunihiko Petillo David Peng Jun Wang Pengfei Knol Jared Li Yan Khoo Sok-Kean Huang Dan Qian Chao-Nan Zhao Ping Dykema Karl Dykyma Karl Zhang Racheal Cao Brian Yang Ximing J Furge Kyle Williams Bart O Teh Bin Tean |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. |
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Abstract: | The Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) disease is a genetic cancer syndrome. The responsible gene, BHD, has been identified by positional cloning and thought to be a novel tumor suppressor gene. BHD mutations cause many types of diseases including renal cell carcinomas, fibrofolliculomas, spontaneous pneumothorax, lung cysts, and colonic polyps/cancers. By combining Gateway Technology with the Ksp-Cre gene knockout system, we have developed a kidney-specific BHD knockout mouse model. BHD(flox/flox)/Ksp-Cre mice developed enlarged kidneys characterized by polycystic kidneys, hyperplasia, and cystic renal cell carcinoma. The affected BHD(flox/flox)/Ksp-Cre mice died of renal failure at approximate three weeks of age, having blood urea nitrogen levels over tenfold higher than those of BHD (flox/+)/Ksp-Cre and wild-type littermate controls. We further demonstrated that these phenotypes were caused by inactivation of BHD and subsequent activation of the mTOR pathway. Application of rapamycin, which inhibits mTOR activity, to the affected mice led to extended survival and inhibited further progression of cystogenesis. These results provide a correlation of kidney-targeted gene inactivation with renal carcinoma, and they suggest that the BHD product FLCN, functioning as a cyst and tumor suppressor, like other hamartoma syndrome-related proteins such as PTEN, LKB1, and TSC1/2, is a component of the mTOR pathway, constituting a novel FLCN-mTOR signaling branch that regulates cell growth/proliferation. |
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