Autophagy inhibition prevents lymphatic malformation progression to lymphangiosarcoma by decreasing osteopontin and Stat3 signaling

Fuchun Yang, Shiva Kalantari, Banzhan Ruan, Shaogang Sun, Zhaoqun Bian and Jun-Lin Guan ()
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Fuchun Yang: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Shiva Kalantari: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Banzhan Ruan: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Shaogang Sun: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Zhaoqun Bian: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Jun-Lin Guan: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Abstract Lymphatic malformation (LM) is a vascular anomaly originating from lymphatic endothelial cells (ECs). While it mostly remains a benign disease, a fraction of LM patients progresses to malignant lymphangiosarcoma (LAS). However, very little is known about underlying mechanisms regulating LM malignant transformation to LAS. Here, we investigate the role of autophagy in LAS development by generating EC-specific conditional knockout of an essential autophagy gene Rb1cc1/FIP200 in Tsc1iΔEC mouse model for human LAS. We find that Fip200 deletion blocked LM progression to LAS without affecting LM development. We further show that inhibiting autophagy by genetical ablation of FIP200, Atg5 or Atg7, significantly inhibited LAS tumor cell proliferation in vitro and tumorigenicity in vivo. Transcriptional profiling of autophagy-deficient tumor cells and additional mechanistic analysis determine that autophagy plays a role in regulating Osteopontin expression and its down-stream Jak/Stat3 signaling in tumor cell proliferation and tumorigenicity. Lastly, we show that specifically disrupting FIP200 canonical autophagy function by knocking-in FIP200−4A mutant allele in Tsc1iΔEC mice blocked LM progression to LAS. These results demonstrate a role for autophagy in LAS development, suggesting new strategies for preventing and treating LAS.

Date: 2023
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