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First published online 8 December 2004
doi: 10.1242/dev.01583

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Targeted activation of ß-catenin signaling in basal mammary epithelial cells affects mammary development and leads to hyperplasia

¹ UMR 144 CNRS-Institut Curie, Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248, Paris, Cedex 05, France
² Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: marina.glukhova{at}curie.fr)

Accepted 12 November 2004

Wnt/ß-catenin signaling pathway is involved in the maintenance of the progenitor cell population in the skin, intestine and other tissues, and its aberrant activation caused by stabilization of ß-catenin contributes to tumorigenesis. In the mammary gland, constitutive activation of Wnt/ß-catenin signaling in luminal secretory cells results in precocious lobuloalveolar differentiation and induces adenocarcinomas, whereas the impact of this signaling pathway on the function of the second major mammary epithelial cell lineage, the basal myoepithelial cells, has not been analyzed. We have used the keratin (K) 5 promoter to target the expression of stabilized N-terminally truncated ß-catenin to the basal cell layer of mouse mammary epithelium. The transgenic mice presented an abnormal mammary phenotype: precocious lateral bud formation, increased proliferation and premature differentiation of luminal epithelium in pregnancy, persistent proliferation in lactation and accelerated involution. Precocious development in pregnancy was accompanied by increased Myc and cyclin D1 transcript levels, and a shift in p63 variant expression towards the Np63 form. The expression of ECM-degrading proteinases and their inhibitors was altered in pregnancy and involution. Nulliparous transgenic females developed mammary hyperplasia that comprised undifferentiated basal (K5/14-positive, K8- and -smooth muscle-actin-negative) cells. Multiparous mice, in addition, developed invasive basal-type carcinomas. Thus, activation of ß-catenin signaling in basal mammary epithelial cells affects the entire process of mammary gland development and induces amplification of basal-type cells that lack lineage markers, presumably, a subpopulation of mammary progenitors able to give rise to tumors.

Key words: ß-catenin, Progenitor cell, Mammary gland, Basal epithelial cell, Hyperplasia, Mouse

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