title: Regulation of sonic hedgehog expression by integrin β1 and epidermal growth factor receptor in intestinal epithelium.
abstract: We previously found that conditional deletion of integrin β1 in intestinal epithelium of mice caused early postnatal lethality and intestinal phenotypic changes including excessive proliferation and defective differentiation of intestinal epithelium due to loss of Hedgehog expression. Here, we link these defects to the Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway and show that loss of integrin β1 leads to excessive phosphorylation of MEK-1 and increased expression of ErbB receptors, including the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). We show that increased EGFR signaling attenuates Hh abundance and that an EGFR inhibitor rescues conditional β1 integrin null pups from postnatal lethality. These studies link the loss of Hh expression in the intestinal epithelium of integrin β1-deficient mice to excessive EGFR/MAPK signaling, and identify a unique mechanism for crosstalk between stromal and epithelial signaling pathways that is critical for intestinal epithelial differentiation and function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncological Sciences and Medicine, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Changxin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Xiufen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Matthew K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Topham
authors.forename: Scott K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kuwada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D005260:Female; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D053823:Hedgehog Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D019426:Integrases / Q000378:metabolism; D019012:Integrin beta1 / Q000502:physiology*; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D008840:Microfilament Proteins / Q000502:physiology*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D051381:Rats; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D053823:Hedgehog Proteins; D019012:Integrin beta1; D008840:Microfilament Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C465570:Shh protein, mouse; C026615:villin; C541485:EGFR protein, mouse; D066246:ErbB Receptors; C045073:Cre recombinase; D019426:Integrases
keywords: ErbB; Hedgehog; differentiation; epidermal growth factor receptor; integrin; intestinal epithelium