Dose-dependent inhibition of thyroid differentiation by RAS oncogenes

Molecular Endocrinology
Gabriella De VitaRoberto Di Lauro

Abstract

Activating mutations in RAS protooncogenes are associated with several different histotypes of thyroid cancer, including anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. The latter is the most aggressive cancer of the thyroid gland, showing little or no expression of the differentiated phenotype. Likewise, expression of viral RAS oncogenes in FRTL-5 rat thyroid cells mimics such loss of differentiation. We established FRTL-5 cell lines stably expressing constitutively active forms of RAS, either of viral (v-Ha-RAS or v-Ki-RAS) or cellular (H-RAS(V12)) origin and generated a tamoxifen-inducible RAS oncoprotein to analyze the timing of RAS effects on thyroid differentiation. In RAS-transformed FRTL-5 cells, we measured the expression of many thyroid-specific genes by real-time PCR and observed that a clear loss of differentiation was only obtained in the presence of high RAS oncogene expression. In contrast, TSH-independent growth appeared to be induced in the presence of both low and high levels of oncogenic RAS expression. We also showed that inhibition of differentiation is an early RAS-induced phenomenon. Finally, we demonstrated that only high doses of RAS oncogenes are able to inhibit the activity of Titf1 and Pax8, two transcription factors ...Continue Reading

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