MmuPV1-Induced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arises Preferentially from Lgr5+ Epithelial Progenitor Cells

Overview

Journal Viruses

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2022 Aug 26

PMID 36016373

Authors

Ruben Moreno

Darya Buehler

Paul F Lambert

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Abstract

Murine papillomavirus, MmuPV1, causes natural infections in laboratory mice that can progress to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) making it a useful preclinical model to study the role of papillomaviruses in cancer. Papillomavirus can infect cells within hair follicles, which contain multiple epithelial progenitor cell populations, including Lgr5+ progenitors, and transgenic mice expressing human papillomavirus oncogenes develop tumors derived from Lgr5 progenitors. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Lgr5+ progenitors contribute to neoplastic lesions arising in skins infected with MmuPV1 by performing lineage tracing experiments. Ears of 6-8-week-old Lgr5-eGFP-IRES-CreERT2/Rosa26LSLtdTomato mice were treated topically with 4-OH Tamoxifen to label Lgr5+ progenitor cells and their progeny with tdTomato and, 72 h later, infected with MmuPV1. Four months post-infection, tissue at the infection site was harvested for histopathological analysis and immunofluorescence to determine the percentage of tdTomato+ cells within the epithelial lesions caused by MmuPV1. Squamous cell dysplasia showed a low percentage of tdTomato+ cells (7%), indicating that it arises primarily from non-Lgr5 progenitor cells. In contrast, cutaneous SCC (cSCC) was substantially more positive for tdTomato+ cells (42%), indicating that cSCCs preferentially arise from Lgr5+ progenitors. Biomarker analyses of dysplasia vs. cSCC revealed further differences consistent with cSCC arising from LGR5+ progenitor cells.

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