科学研究
20190128 Tumor-Derived Ligands Trigger Tumor Growth and Host Wasting via Differential MEK Activation

Song, W.*, Kir, S., Hong, S., Hu, Y., Wang, X., Binari, R., Tang, H.W., Chung, V., Banks, A.S., Spiegelman, B., Perrimon, N.*(2019). Tumor-Derived Ligands Trigger Tumor Growth and Host Wasting via Differential MEK Activation. Developmental cell 48, 277-286 e276. 


Abstract

Interactions between tumors and host tissues play essential roles in tumor-induced systemic wasting and cancer cachexia, including muscle wasting and lipid loss. However, the pathogenic molecular mechanisms of wasting are still poorly understood. Using a fly model of tumor-induced organ wasting, we observed aberrant MEK activation in both tumors and host tissues of flies bearing gut-yki3SA tumors. We found that host MEK activation results in muscle wasting and lipid loss, while tumor MEK activation is required for tumor growth. Strikingly, host MEK suppression alone is sufficient to abolish the wasting phenotypes without affecting tumor growth. We further uncovered that yki3SA tumors produce the vein (vn) ligand to trigger autonomous Egfr/MEK-induced tumor growth and produce the PDGF- and VEGF-related factor 1 (Pvf1) ligand to non-autonomously activate host Pvr/MEK signaling and wasting. Altogether, our results demonstrate the essential roles and molecular mechanisms of differential MEK activation in tumor-induced host wasting.

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