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Elevated Protein Kinase A Activity in Stomach Mesenchyme Disrupts Mesenchymal-epithelial Crosstalk and Induces Preneoplasia.

Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology (2022-06-12)
Pawan Puri, Garfield Grimmett, Rawah Faraj, Laurielle Gibson, Ebony Gilbreath, Bradley K Yoder
ABSTRACT

Mesenchymal-epithelial crosstalk (MEC) in the stomach is executed by pathways such as bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK). Mis-regulation of MEC disrupts gastric homeostasis and causes tumorigenesis. Protein Kinase A (PKA) crosstalks with BMP and ERK signaling; however, PKA function(s) in stomach development and homeostasis remains undefined. We generated a novel Six2-Cre+/-PKAcαRfl/wt (CA-PKA) mouse in which expression of constitutive-active PKAcαR was induced in gastric mesenchyme progenitors. Lineage tracing determined spatiotemporal activity of Six2-Cre in the stomach. For phenotyping CA-PKA mice histological, co-immunofluorescence, immunoblotting, mRNA sequencing, and bioinformatics analyses were performed. Lineage tracing showed that Six2-Cre activity in the stomach is restricted to the mesenchymal compartment. CA-PKA mice showed disruption of gastric homeostasis characterized by aberrant mucosal development and epithelial hyperproliferation; ultimately developing multiple features of gastric corpus preneoplasia including decreased parietal cells, mucous cell hyperplasia, spasmolytic peptide expressing metaplasia with intestinal characteristics, and dysplastic and invasive cystic glands. Furthermore, mutant corpus showed marked chronic inflammation characterized by infiltration of lymphocytes and myeloid-derived suppressor cells along with the upregulation of innate and adaptive immune system components. Striking upregulation of inflammatory mediators and STAT3 activation was observed. Mechanistically, we determined there is an activation of ERK1/2 and downregulation of BMP/SMAD signaling characterized by marked upregulation of BMP inhibitor gremlin 1. We report a novel role of PKA signaling in gastric MEC execution and show that PKA activation in the gastric mesenchyme drives preneoplasia by creating a proinflammatory and proproliferative microenvironment associated with the downregulation of BMP/SMAD signaling and activation of ERK1/2.

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