TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of A4gnt Knockout Mice Reveals an Essential Role for Gastric Sulfomucins in Preventing Gastritis Cystica Profunda
AU - Kawakubo, Masatomo
AU - Komura, Hitomi
AU - Goso, Yukinobu
AU - Okumura, Motohiro
AU - Sato, Yoshiko
AU - Fujii, Chifumi
AU - Miyashita, Masaki
AU - Arisaka, Nobuhiko
AU - Harumiya, Satoru
AU - Yamanoi, Kazuhiro
AU - Yamada, Shigenori
AU - Kakuta, Shigeru
AU - Kawashima, Hiroto
AU - Fukuda, Michiko N.
AU - Fukuda, Minoru
AU - Nakayama, Jun
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Dr. Elise Lamar for editing the manuscript. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, nos. 16K08708 (MK), 17K17779 (HKo), and 15H04712 (JN).
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© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Gastric adenocarcinoma cells secrete sulfomucins, but their role in gastric tumorigenesis remains unclear. To address that question, we generated A4gnt/Chst4 double-knockout (DKO) mice by crossing A4gnt knockout (KO) mice, which spontaneously develop gastric adenocarcinoma, with Chst4 KO mice, which are deficient in the sulfotransferase GlcNAc6ST-2. A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice lack gastric sulfomucins but developed gastric adenocarcinoma. Unexpectedly, severe gastric erosion occurred in A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice at as early as 3 weeks of age, and with aging these lesions were accompanied by gastritis cystica profunda (GCP). Cxcl1, Cxcl5, Ccl2, and Cxcr2 transcripts in gastric mucosa of 5-week-old A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice exhibiting both hyperplasia and severe erosion were significantly upregulated relative to age-matched A4gnt KO mice, which showed hyperplasia alone. However, upregulation of these genes disappeared in 50-week-old A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice exhibiting high-grade dysplasia/adenocarcinoma and GCP. Moreover, Cxcl1 and Cxcr2 were downregulated in A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice relative to age-matched A4gnt KO mice exhibiting adenocarcinoma alone. These combined results indicate that the presence of sulfomucins prevents severe gastric erosion followed by GCP in A4gnt KO mice by transiently regulating a set of inflammation-related genes, Cxcl1, Cxcl5, Ccl2, and Cxcr2 at 5 weeks of age, although sulfomucins were not directly associated with gastric cancer development:.
AB - Gastric adenocarcinoma cells secrete sulfomucins, but their role in gastric tumorigenesis remains unclear. To address that question, we generated A4gnt/Chst4 double-knockout (DKO) mice by crossing A4gnt knockout (KO) mice, which spontaneously develop gastric adenocarcinoma, with Chst4 KO mice, which are deficient in the sulfotransferase GlcNAc6ST-2. A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice lack gastric sulfomucins but developed gastric adenocarcinoma. Unexpectedly, severe gastric erosion occurred in A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice at as early as 3 weeks of age, and with aging these lesions were accompanied by gastritis cystica profunda (GCP). Cxcl1, Cxcl5, Ccl2, and Cxcr2 transcripts in gastric mucosa of 5-week-old A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice exhibiting both hyperplasia and severe erosion were significantly upregulated relative to age-matched A4gnt KO mice, which showed hyperplasia alone. However, upregulation of these genes disappeared in 50-week-old A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice exhibiting high-grade dysplasia/adenocarcinoma and GCP. Moreover, Cxcl1 and Cxcr2 were downregulated in A4gnt/Chst4 DKO mice relative to age-matched A4gnt KO mice exhibiting adenocarcinoma alone. These combined results indicate that the presence of sulfomucins prevents severe gastric erosion followed by GCP in A4gnt KO mice by transiently regulating a set of inflammation-related genes, Cxcl1, Cxcl5, Ccl2, and Cxcr2 at 5 weeks of age, although sulfomucins were not directly associated with gastric cancer development:.
KW - A4gnt
KW - Chst4
KW - O-glycan
KW - double knockout mouse
KW - gastric mucin
KW - gastritis cystica profunda
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U2 - 10.1369/0022155419860134
DO - 10.1369/0022155419860134
M3 - Article
C2 - 31246144
AN - SCOPUS:85068322587
VL - 67
SP - 759
EP - 770
JO - Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
JF - Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
SN - 0022-1554
IS - 10
ER -