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PI3K gamma promotes obesity-associated hepatocellular carcinoma by regulating metabolism and inflammation
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- Becattini, Barbara (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin,Wallenberglaboratoriet,Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine,Wallenberg Laboratory
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- Breasson, Ludovic (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Wallenberglaboratoriet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin,Wallenberg Laboratory,Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine
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- Sardi, Claudia, 1985 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin,Wallenberglaboratoriet,Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine,Wallenberg Laboratory
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Zani, F. (author)
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- Solinas, Giovanni (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för molekylär och klinisk medicin,Wallenberglaboratoriet,Institute of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine,Wallenberg Laboratory
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- Elsevier BV, 2021
- 2021
- English.
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In: Jhep Reports. - : Elsevier BV. - 2589-5559. ; 3:6
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- Background & Aims: Phosphatidylinositides-3 kinases (PI3Ks) are promising drug targets for cancer therapy, but blockage of PI3K-AKT signalling causes hyperglycaemia, hyperinsulinaemia, and liver damage in patients, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in mice. There are 4 PI3K alpha: PI3K beta, PI3K delta, PI3K gamma, and PI3K gamma. The role of PI3K gamma in HCC is unknown. Methods: We performed histopathological, metabolic, and molecular phenotyping of mice with genetic ablation of PI3K gamma using models where HCC was initiated by the carcinogen diethylnitrosamine (DEN) and promoted by dietary or genetic obesity (ob/ob). The role of PI3K gamma in leucocytes was investigated in mice lacking PI3K gamma in haematopoietic and endothelial cells. Results: Loss of PI3K gamma had no effects on the development of DEN-induced HCC in lean mice. However, in mice injected with DEN and placed on an obesogenic diet, PI3K gamma ablation reduced tumour growth, which was associated with reduced insulinaemia, steatosis, and expression of inflammatory cytokines. ob/ob mice lacking PI3K gamma, and mice with diet-induced obesity lacking PI3K gamma in leucocytes and endothelial cells did not display improved insulin sensitivity, steatosis, metabolic inflammation, or reduced tumour growth. However, these mice showed a reduced number of tumours, reduced liver infiltration by neutrophils, and reduced hepatocyte proliferation acutely induced by DEN. Conclusions: Loss of PI3K gamma reduces tumour development in obesity-promoted HCC through multiple cell types and mechanisms that include improved insulinaemia, steatosis, and metabolic inflammation as well as the regulation of acute neutrophil infiltration and compensatory hepatocyte proliferation. PI3K gamma-selective inhibition may represent a novel therapeutic approach to reduce HCC initiation and slow HCC progression. Lay summary: Class-1 phosphatidylinositides-3 kinases (PI3K gamma) are critical targets in cancer therapy, but complete inhibition of all isoforms causes liver damage, hyperglycaemia, and insulinaemia. Here we show that selective ablation of the PI3K gamma isoform dampens tumour initiation and growth in a mouse model of carcinogen-initiated and obesity-promoted hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The effect of PI3K gamma ablation on reduced tumour growth was explained by reduced tumour cell proliferation, which was associated with reduced insulin levels, liver lipids, and reduced expression of tumour-promoting cytokines. PI3K gamma ablation in leucocytes of obese mice had no effects on tumour size. However, it reduced tumour number in association with reduced carcinogen-induced neutrophil infiltration and hepatocyte proliferation in livers of obese mice. Inhibition of PI3K gamma may thus reduce HCC initiation and growth in obese subjects by a mechanism involving reduced metabolic stress and insulinaemia and reduced carcinogen-induced neutrophil infiltration to the fatty liver. (C) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Cancer och onkologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Cancer and Oncology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- NAFLD
- NASH
- Insulin
- AKT
- mTOR
- cancer
- overweight
- blockade
- Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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