A Molecular Signature of Gastric Metaplasia Arising in Response to Acute Parietal Cell Loss
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GASTROENTEROLOGY 2008;134:511–522 A Molecular Signature of Gastric Metaplasia Arising in Response to Acute Parietal Cell Loss KOJI NOZAKI,*,‡ MASAKO OGAWA,‡ JANICE A. WILLIAMS,* BONNIE J. LAFLEUR,* VIVIAN NG,§ RONNY I. DRAPKIN,§,ʈ JASON C. MILLS,¶ STEPHEN F. KONIECZNY,# SACHIYO NOMURA,‡ and JAMES R. GOLDENRING* *Nashville VA Medical Center and the Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee; ‡Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; §Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; ʈDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ¶Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; and the #Department of Biological Sciences and the Purdue Cancer Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Background & Aims: Loss of gastric parietal cells is cosa or oxyntic atrophy. The loss of parietal cells leads to a critical precursor to gastric metaplasia and neoplasia. alterations in the cells in the gastric mucosa with the However, the origin of metaplasia remains obscure. emergence of metaplastic mucous cell lineages. The de- Acute parietal cell loss in gastrin-deficient mice treated velopment of oxyntic atrophy and gastric cancer in hu- with DMP-777 leads to the rapid emergence of spasmo- man beings is linked strongly through a sequence of lytic polypeptide/trefoil factor family 2 (TFF2)-express- lineage changes from normal to metaplastic to neoplas- ing metaplasia (SPEM) from the bases of fundic glands. tic.2 Although Helicobacter pylori infection is associated We now sought to characterize more definitively the with the induction of atrophic gastritis and histologic pathway for emergence of SPEM. Methods: Emerging progression to gastric cancer, the exact mechanisms for BASIC– SPEM lineages in gastrin-deficient mice treated with the development of gastric metaplasia remain obscure. In DMP-777 were examined for immunolocalization of addition to their important role in luminal HCl secre- ALIMENTARY TRACT TFF2, intrinsic factor, and Mist1, and morphologically tion, gastric parietal cells also secrete a number of critical with electron microscopy. Emerging SPEM was isolated paracrine and autocrine regulators including sonic with laser-capture microdissection and RNA was ana- hedgehog3 and the epidermal growth factor receptor li- lyzed using gene microarrays. Immunohistochemistry gands transforming growth factor ␣, amphiregulin, and in mouse and human samples was used to confirm heparin binding–epidermal growth factor.4 Thus, loss of up-regulated transcripts. Results: DMP-777–induced parietal cells may alter the intramucosal milieu, leading SPEM was immunoreactive for TFF2 and the differen- to the initiation of metaplasia. It now is clear that 2 types tiated chief cell markers, Mist1 and intrinsic factor, of mucous cell metaplasia develop in the atrophic human suggesting that SPEM derived from transdifferentiation stomach and represent putative preneoplastic lesions: of chief cells. Microarray analysis of microdissected goblet cell intestinal metaplasia and spasmolytic SPEM lineages induced by DMP-777 showed up-regu- polypeptide–expressing metaplasia (SPEM, also known lation of transcripts associated with G1/S cell-cycle as pseudopyloric metaplasia).5 transition including minichromosome maintenance de- In the normal gastric fundic mucosa, progenitor cells ficient proteins, as well as a number of secreted factors, located in the gland neck give rise to 4 types of epithelial including human epididymis 4 (HE4). HE4, which was cells including pepsinogen-secreting zymogenic chief cells, absent in the normal stomach, was expressed in SPEM acid-producing parietal cells, and 2 types of mucous cells: of human and mouse and in intestinal metaplasia and surface mucous cells and mucous neck cells.6 Surface gastric cancer in human beings. Conclusions: Al- mucous cells secrete trefoil factor family 1 (TFF1) and though traditionally metaplasia was thought to origi- mucin 5AC, whereas mucous neck cells secrete spasmo- nate from normal mucosal progenitor cells, these stud- lytic polypeptide/TFF2 and mucin 6. As mucous neck ies indicate that SPEM evolves through either cells migrate towards the bases of fundic glands they transdifferentiation of chief cells or activation of a basal redifferentiate into zymogenic chief cells, which secrete cryptic progenitor. In addition, induction of metaplasia both pepsinogen and intrinsic factor in rodents.6 The elicits the expression of secreted factors, such as HE4, relevant to gastric preneoplasia. Abbreviations used in this paper: HE4, human epididymis 4; MCM, minichromosome maintenance deficient; PCR, polymerase chain re- astric cancer remains the second leading cause of action; SPEM, spasmolytic polypeptide expressing metaplastic lin- cancer-related death worldwide.1 Although the dis- eage; TACC3, transforming acidic coiled-coil–containing protein 3; G TFF2, trefoil factor family 2. crete mechanisms of gastric carcinogenesis remain ob- © 2008 by the AGA Institute scure, one constant in the etiology of gastric cancer is the 0016-5085/08/$34.00 loss of acid-secreting parietal cells from the fundic mu- doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2007.11.058 512 NOZAKI ET AL GASTROENTEROLOGY Vol. 134, No. 2 prezymogenic cells display granules showing features in- days with oral gavage administration of DMP-777 (a gift termediate between those of neck cells and zymogenic of DuPont Pharmaceuticals), formulated in 0.5% meth- chief cells. Importantly, the transition between mucous ylcellulose (administered orally as a gavage once daily at neck cells and chief cells occurs without an intermediate 350 mg/kg/day). Untreated mice were used as controls. transiently amplifying cell and involves the induction of Mice were killed and their stomachs were excised and the transcription factor Mist1, a specific marker for ma- opened along the greater curvature and processed for ture chief cells.7 frozen sections for laser-capture microdissection. From Several mouse models have sought to examine influ- the untreated gastrin-deficient mice, chief cells were mi- ences that may lead to metaplasia. Chronic infection with crodissected from the bases of gastric glands. The emerg- Helicobacter felis leads to oxyntic atrophy and the emer- ing SPEM cells were microdissected from the bases of gence of SPEM, with the eventual development of dys- fundic glands of DMP-777–treated gastrin-deficient mice plasia.8,9 Oral administration of DMP-777, a cell-per- after 1 or 3 days of oral drug administration. Cell collec- meant inhibitor of neutrophil elastase, which also acts as tions (10,000 cells) and extractions of total RNA were a parietal cell–specific protonophore,10 leads to the emer- performed as previously described.12 gence of SPEM, but in the absence of a significant in- Total RNAs from microdissected cells were reverse flammatory response.11,12 Although SPEM develops in transcribed and amplified through 2 rounds of linear wild-type mice after 7–10 days of DMP-777–induced pa- amplification using a Nugen (San Carlos, CA) Ovation rietal cell loss, SPEM develops after only a single dose in kit to amplify and label 10–20 ng of RNA. The resulting ALIMENTARY TRACT gastrin-deficient mice.11 Importantly, emerging SPEM single-strand complementary DNA (cDNA) product was cells express both TFF2 and the mouse chief cell marker purified by binding to and elution from a Qiagen (Va- BASIC– intrinsic factor.11 Thus, although prevailing dogma has lencia, CA) Qiaquick column. The cDNA product then suggested that metaplasias arise from aberrant differen- was measured and 2.2 g of the fragmented, labeled tiation of normal progenitor cells, these findings sug- product was hybridized to Affymetrix (Santa Clara, CA) gested that metaplastic SPEM cells were derived either Mouse 430 2.0 microarrays overnight, with staining and from a cryptic progenitor cell population at the bases of scanning performed the next day (Vanderbilt Microarray fundic glands or from transdifferentiation of chief cells Facility). Gene expression was analyzed among microdis- expressing intrinsic factor into mucous cells expressing sected cells from 4 untreated gastrin-deficient mice, 4 TFF2. mice treated with DMP-777 for 1 day, and 4 mice treated We now report that, in response to parietal cell loss, with DMP-777 for 3 days. The raw gene expression data SPEM arises at the bases of gastric glands distinct from (.cel files) were converted to expression values using the normal progenitor cells. Loss of parietal cells leads to the Affy function in R (http://www.bioconductor.org). the observation of metaplastic cells expressing TFF2 The expression levels between groups were compared first along with the mature chief cell markers, intrinsic factor using an overall permutation F-test for difference be- and Mist1. Microdissected emerging SPEM shows up- tween the groups (control, 1-day treatment, and 3 days of regulation of transcripts associated with G1/S cell-cycle treatment) using analysis of variance; if a statistically transition. In addition, transcripts for a group of secreted significant overall difference was seen then pair-wise dif- ligands were up-regulated prominently in SPEM. In par- ferences between control and 1 day of treatment and ticular, the whey acidic protein domain protein human control and 3 days of treatment were performed using epididymis 4 (HE4) was absent from the normal stom- permutation