Accelerated carcinogenesis following liver regeneration is associated with chronic inflammation-induced double-strand DNA breaks

Hila Barash, Eitan R. Gross, Yifat Edrei, Ezra Ella, Ariel Israel, Irit Cohen, Nathalie Corchia, Tehila Ben-Moshe, Orit Pappo, Eli Pikarsky, Daniel Goldenberg, Yosef Shiloh, Eithan Galun, Rinat Abramovitch*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and is considered to be the outcome of chronic liver inflammation. Currently, the main treatment for HCC is surgical resection. However, survival rates are suboptimal partially because of tumor recurrence in the remaining liver. Our aim was to understand the molecular mechanisms linking liver regeneration under chronic inflammation to hepatic tumorigenesis. Mdr2-KO mice, a model of inflammation-associated cancer, underwent partial hepatectomy (PHx), which led to enhanced hepatocarcinogenesis. Moreover, liver regeneration in these mice was severely attenuated. We demonstrate the activation of the DNA damage-response machinery and increased genomic instability during early liver inflammatory stages resulting in hepatocyte apoptosis, cell-cycle arrest, and senescence and suggest their involvement in tumor growth acceleration subsequent to PHx. We propose that under the regenerative proliferative stress induced by liver resection, the genomic unstable hepatocytes generated during chronic inflammation escape senescence and apoptosis and reenter the cell cycle, triggering the enhanced tumorigenesis. Thus, we clarify the immediate and long-term contributions of the DNA damage response to HCC development and recurrence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2207-2212
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume107
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Feb 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Genomic instability
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
  • MDR2 mice
  • MRI

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