Mitochondrial defect drives non-autonomous tumour progression through Hippo signalling in Drosophila (original) (raw)

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Mitochondrial respiratory function is frequently impaired in human cancers1,2,3,4. However, the mechanisms by which mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to tumour progression remain elusive. Here we show in Drosophila imaginal epithelium that defects in mitochondrial function potently induce tumour progression of surrounding tissue in conjunction with oncogenic Ras. Our data show that Ras activation and mitochondrial dysfunction cooperatively stimulate production of reactive oxygen species, which causes activation of c-Jun amino (N)-terminal kinase (JNK) signalling. JNK cooperates with oncogenic Ras to inactivate the Hippo pathway, leading to upregulation of its targets Unpaired (an interleukin-6 homologue) and Wingless (a Wnt homologue). Mitochondrial dysfunction in Ras-activated cells further cooperates with Ras signalling in neighbouring cells with normal mitochondrial function, causing benign tumours to exhibit metastatic behaviour. Our findings provide a mechanistic basis for interclonal tumour progression driven by mitochondrial dysfunction and oncogenic Ras.

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We thank J. Pastor-Pareja and M. Miura for comments on the manuscript; T. Sawada and K. Takino for technical support; D. Harrison, T. Orr-Weaver and H. Richardson for antibodies; T. Adachi-Yamada, U. Banerjee, D. Bohmann, F. Missirlis, M. Miura, H. Sun, T. Xu, Y. Hiromi, the Bloomington Stock Center, the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, the National Institute of Genetics Stock Center and the Drosophila Genetic Resource Center for fly stocks. We also thank T. Xu for encouragement. This work was supported in part by grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to S.O., M.E. and T.I, a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the MEXT to S.O. and T.I., the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists to S.O. and M.E., the Japan Science and Technology Agency to T.I., the G-COE program for Global Center for Education and Research in Integrative Membrane Biology to S.O. and T.I.,the Fumi Yamamura Memorial Foundation for Female Natural Scientists to S.O, the Tomizawa Jun-ichi & Keiko Fund of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan for Young Scientists to S.O., the Takeda Science Foundation to S.O. and T.I., the Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders to T.I., the Kanae Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science to T.I., the Senri Life Science Foundation to T.I. and a Human Frontier Science Program Career Development Award to T.I.

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  1. Division of Genetics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan,
    Shizue Ohsawa, Yoshitaka Sato, Masato Enomoto, Mai Nakamura, Aya Betsumiya & Tatsushi Igaki
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    Tatsushi Igaki

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S.O., Y.S., M.E. and T.I. designed the research, S.O., Y.S., M.E., M.N., A.B. and T.I. performed experiments, S.O., Y.S., M.E. and T.I. analysed the data, and S.O. and T.I. wrote the manuscript.

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Ohsawa, S., Sato, Y., Enomoto, M. et al. Mitochondrial defect drives non-autonomous tumour progression through Hippo signalling in Drosophila.Nature 490, 547–551 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11452

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Tumour growth and mitochondrial dysfunction

Previous work has shown that clones of cells carrying distinct oncogenic mutations can cooperate to drive tumorigenesis in a Drosophila model. This study shows that mutations that lead to mitochondrial dysfunction in a Drosophila imaginal epithelial disc system can also promote tumour growth in neighbouring cells expressing an activated Ras oncogene. The mechanism responsible involves activation of JNK signalling and the Hippo tumour-suppressor pathway. Mitochondrial dysfunction that can lead to enhanced production of reactive oxygen species has been implicated in human cancer. The ability of such defects to promote tumorigenesis in a non-cell-autonomous manner may shed light on the clonal evolution of human cancers and the basis of widespread intra-tumour heterogeneity.