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(American Journal of Pathology. 2000;157:1113-1121.)
© 2000 American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Patterning and Nuclear ß-Catenin Expression in the Colonic Adenoma-Carcinoma Sequence

Analogies with Embryonic Gastrulation

Thomas Kirchner and Thomas Brabletz

From the Department of Pathology, University of Erlangen–Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Patterning is a process by which ordered arrangements of cells and tissue structure are attained. The term derived from developmental biology is also useful for the study of colonic carcinogenesis, in which the patterning of neoplastic tubules is necessary for properties of growth, invasion, and metastasis. Interestingly the nuclear expression and transcriptional activity of ß-catenin, a major oncoprotein in colonic carcinogenesis, is decisive for the first patterning of a tubule in embryogenesis, which creates the primitive gut and is called the gastrulation. Thus, basic patternings of embryogenesis and carcinogenesis might be linked. To test this hypothesis we compared morphological patterns and immunohistochemical ß-catenin stainings in colonic adenomas and adenocarcinomas with the gastrulation steps. Two analogies were found: 1) the patterning of invasion with reconstruction in adenocarcinomas corresponded to the epithelio-mesenchymal transition, ingression, and rearrangement of cells during the first phase of gastrulation; and 2) the patterning of tubular branching in adenomas and adenocarcinomas resembled the endodermal invagination during the second phase. The intratumorous distribution and intensity of nuclear ß-catenin expression was significantly correlated with the two patternings, similar to the findings in gastrulation. The results indicate microenvironmental regulations of nuclear ß-catenin expression and a return of neoplastic cells to embryonic transcriptional susceptibilities during colonic carcinogenesis.




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