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Pancreatic endocrine-exocrine crosstalk plays a key role in normal physiology and disease. For instance, endocrine islet beta (β) cell secr… (voir plus)etion of insulin or cholecystokinin (CCK) promotes progression of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC), an exocrine cell-derived tumor. However, the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern endocrine-exocrine signaling in tumorigenesis remain incompletely understood. We find that β cell ablation impedes PDAC development in mice, arguing that the endocrine pancreas is critical for exocrine tumorigenesis. Conversely, obesity induces β cell hormone dysregulation, alters CCK-dependent peri-islet exocrine cell transcriptional states, and enhances islet proximal tumor formation. Single-cell RNA-sequencing, in silico latent-space archetypal and trajectory analysis, and genetic lineage tracing in vivo reveal that obesity stimulates postnatal immature β cell expansion and adaptation towards a pro-tumorigenic CCK+ state via JNK/cJun stress-responsive signaling. These results define endocrine-exocrine signaling as a driver of PDAC development and uncover new avenues to target the endocrine pancreas to subvert exocrine tumorigenesis.
For a long time, the pancreas was thought to have separate cellular compartments that functioned distinctly from one another. The endocrine … (voir plus)pancreas (islets of Langerhans) regulates glucose homeostasis, while the exocrine pancreas (acini and ducts) produces and secretes digestive enzymes. However, it has recently become clear that the endocrine and exocrine compartments communicate with one another, and dysfunction in one leads to dysfunction in the other, resulting in diabetes or pancreatitis. However, whether and how the endocrine pancreas drives the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), an exocrine tumor, remains unresolved. Strikingly, we found that genetic ablation of insulin-producing islet beta (β) cells (Akita) in a faithful Kras/Trp53-driven PDAC model (KPC: Kras LSL-G12D /+; Trp 53172 /+; Pdx1-Cre) suppressed PDAC progression. Conversely, obesity-induced β cell hormone dysregulation promoted Kras-driven PDAC development. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis of wild-type and obese mice (high-fat diet-fed and leptin-deficient (Lep ob/ob )) revealed increased expression of the peptide hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) in a subset of β cells concordant with increasing obesity, and transgenic β cell overexpression of CCK was sufficient to promote exocrine tumorigenesis in KC mice. Combined in silico (pseudotime (TrajectoryNET) and archetypal (AANet) analysis) and experimental (CreER) lineage tracing demonstrated that CCK-expressing β cells originated from a pre-existing immature β cell population (virgin β cells). Grainger causality analysis of transcriptional networks uncovered a stress-induced JNK-cJun pathway that promotes CCK expression β cells, which we confirmed using JNK inhibitors in β cell models. Together, our findings identify cellular and molecular mechanisms of β cell adaptation to obesity that contribute to obesity-driven pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, we define a critical role for endocrine-exocrine signaling in PDAC progression and stress-induced β cell pathways which could be leveraged to target the endocrine pancreas to subvert exocrine tumorigenesis.
Citation Format: Cathy Garcia, Aarthi Venkat, Daniel McQuaid, Sherry Agabiti, Alex Tong, Rebecca Cardone, Richard Kibbey, Smita Krishnaswamy, Mandar Muzumdar. Endocrine beta-cell stress promotes pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through endocrine-exocrine cell crosstalk [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Advances in Pancreatic Cancer Research; 2024 Sep 15-18; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2024;84(17 Suppl_2):Abstract nr PR-05.
For a long time, the pancreas was thought to have separate cellular compartments that functioned distinctly from one another. The endocrine … (voir plus)pancreas (islets of Langerhans) regulates glucose homeostasis, while the exocrine pancreas (acini and ducts) produces and secretes digestive enzymes. However, it has recently become clear that the endocrine and exocrine compartments communicate with one another, and dysfunction in one leads to dysfunction in the other, resulting in diabetes or pancreatitis. However, whether and how the endocrine pancreas drives the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), an exocrine tumor, remains unresolved. Strikingly, we found that genetic ablation of insulin-producing islet beta (β) cells (Akita) in a faithful Kras/Trp53-driven PDAC model (KPC: Kras LSL-G12D /+; Trp 53172 /+; Pdx1-Cre) suppressed PDAC progression. Conversely, obesity-induced β cell hormone dysregulation promoted Kras-driven PDAC development. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analysis of wild-type and obese mice (high-fat diet-fed and leptin-deficient (Lep ob/ob )) revealed increased expression of the peptide hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) in a subset of β cells concordant with increasing obesity, and transgenic β cell overexpression of CCK was sufficient to promote exocrine tumorigenesis in KC mice. Combined in silico (pseudotime (TrajectoryNET) and archetypal (AANet) analysis) and experimental (CreER) lineage tracing demonstrated that CCK-expressing β cells originated from a pre-existing immature β cell population (virgin β cells). Grainger causality analysis of transcriptional networks uncovered a stress-induced JNK-cJun pathway that promotes CCK expression β cells, which we confirmed using JNK inhibitors in β cell models. Together, our findings identify cellular and molecular mechanisms of β cell adaptation to obesity that contribute to obesity-driven pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, we define a critical role for endocrine-exocrine signaling in PDAC progression and stress-induced β cell pathways which could be leveraged to target the endocrine pancreas to subvert exocrine tumorigenesis.
Citation Format: Cathy Garcia, Aarthi Venkat, Daniel McQuaid, Sherry Agabiti, Alex Tong, Rebecca Cardone, Richard Kibbey, Smita Krishnaswamy, Mandar Muzumdar. Endocrine beta-cell stress promotes pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through endocrine-exocrine cell crosstalk [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR Special Conference in Cancer Research: Advances in Pancreatic Cancer Research; 2024 Sep 15-18; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2024;84(17 Suppl_2):Abstract nr PR-05.