The Pan-ErbB Negative Regulator Lrig1 is an Intestinal Stem Cell Marker That Functions As a Tumor Suppressor

Overview

Journal Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2012 Apr 3

PMID 22464327

Citations 396

Authors

Anne E Powell

Yang Wang

Yina Li

Emily J Poulin

Anna L Means

Mary K Washington

James N Higginbotham

Alwin Juchheim

Nripesh Prasad

Shawn E Levy

Yan Guo

Yu Shyr

Bruce J Aronow

Kevin M Haigis

Jeffrey L Franklin

Robert J Coffey

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Abstract

Lineage mapping has identified both proliferative and quiescent intestinal stem cells, but the molecular circuitry controlling stem cell quiescence is incompletely understood. By lineage mapping, we show Lrig1, a pan-ErbB inhibitor, marks predominately noncycling, long-lived stem cells that are located at the crypt base and that, upon injury, proliferate and divide to replenish damaged crypts. Transcriptome profiling of Lrig1(+) colonic stem cells differs markedly from the profiling of highly proliferative, Lgr5(+) colonic stem cells; genes upregulated in the Lrig1(+) population include those involved in cell cycle repression and response to oxidative damage. Loss of Apc in Lrig1(+) cells leads to intestinal adenomas, and genetic ablation of Lrig1 results in heightened ErbB1-3 expression and duodenal adenomas. These results shed light on the relationship between proliferative and quiescent intestinal stem cells and support a model in which intestinal stem cell quiescence is maintained by calibrated ErbB signaling with loss of a negative regulator predisposing to neoplasia.

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