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2014-2015: Proposed research project 11

Role of cell competition in muti-sequencial carcinogenesis
Leader : Shunsuke Kon
Research progress

In this research project, we have accomplished so far as followed. First, we successfully established cell competition mouse model, in which tamoxifen administration induces RasV12 in small intestine of mice in a mosaic manner (under submission). Second, we observed apically extruded RasV12 cells in vivo and ex vivo (under submission). Third, when RasV12 was induced musically in APC-mutated epithelial cells, the number of RasV12 invading into stromal region increased. Those APC/Ras double mutated cells could expand in the villi, resulted in de novo cancer development (unpublished data). Forth, when p53 mutation was induced in non-transformed MDCK cells, the p53-mutated cells surrounded by normal cells died by necroptosis-like cell death. Furthermore p53 mutated cells generated in constitutively RasV12-expressing MDCK cells overcame the competition and survived, suggesting that Ras/p53 double mutated cells could gain the resistance against the death signal from the surrounding normal cells (unpublished data).