Intestinal cancers are developed from intestinal epithelial stem cells(ISCs)in intestinal crypts through a multi-step process involved in genetic mutations of oncogenes and tumor suppressor *** play a key role in main...
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Intestinal cancers are developed from intestinal epithelial stem cells(ISCs)in intestinal crypts through a multi-step process involved in genetic mutations of oncogenes and tumor suppressor *** play a key role in maintaining the homeostasis of gut *** 2009,Sato et al established a three-dimensional culture system,which mimicked the niche microenvironment by employing the niche factors,and successfully grew crypt ISCs into organoids or mini-guts in *** then,the intestinal organoid technology has been used to delineate cellular signaling in ISC ***,the cultured organoids consist of heterogeneous cell populations,and it was technically challenging to introduce genomic changes into three-dimensional ***,there was a technical necessity to develop a twodimensional ISC culture system for effective genomic *** this study,we established a conditionally immortalized mouse intestinal crypt(ciMIC)cell line by using a piggyBac transposon-based SV40 T antigen expression *** showed that the ciMICs maintained long-term proliferative activity under two-dimensional niche factor-containing culture condition,retained the biological characteristics of intestinal epithelial stem cells,and could form intestinal organoids in three-dimensional *** in vivo cell implantation tests indicated that the ciMICs were non-tumorigenic,the ciMICs overexpressing oncogenic b-catenin and/or KRAS exhibited high proliferative activity and developed intestinal adenoma-like pathological features in ***,these findings strongly suggested that the engineered ciMICs should be used as a valuable tool cell line to dissect the genetic and/or epigenetic underpinnings of intestinal tumorigenesis.
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