Abstract
Hedgehog (Hh) signaling regulates cell fate and self-renewal in development and cancer. Canonical Hh signaling is mediated by Hh ligand binding to the receptor Patched (Ptch), which in turn activates Gli-mediated transcription through Smoothened (Smo), the molecular target of the Hh pathway inhibitors used as cancer therapeutics. Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a common, aggressive malignancy with universally poor prognosis. Although preclinical studies have shown that Hh inhibitors block the self-renewal capacity of SCLC cells, the lack of activating pathway mutations have cast doubt over the significance of these observations. In particular, the existence of autocrine, ligand-dependent Hh signaling in SCLC has been disputed. In a conditional Tp53;Rb1 mutant mouse model of SCLC, we now demonstrate a requirement for the Hh ligand Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) for the progression of SCLC. Conversely, we show that conditional Shh overexpression activates canonical Hh signaling in SCLC cells, and markedly accelerates tumor progression. When compared to mouse SCLC tumors expressing an activating, ligand-independent Smo mutant, tumors overexpressing Shh exhibited marked chromosomal instability and Smoothened-independent upregulation of Cyclin B1, a putative non-canonical arm of the Hh pathway. In turn, we show that overexpression of Cyclin B1 induces chromosomal instability in mouse embryonic fibroblasts lacking both Tp53 and Rb1. These results provide strong support for an autocrine, ligand-dependent model of Hh signaling in SCLC pathogenesis, and reveal a novel role for non-canonical Hh signaling through the induction of chromosomal instability.
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Introduction
The Hedgehog (Hh) pathway regulates cell fate and self-renewal in development.1, 2 In mammals, the pathway is activated by three lipid modified Hh proteins, Sonic (Shh), Indian (Ihh) and Desert (Dhh) Hedgehogs, which bind to the receptor Patched (Ptch1), which in turn acts to constitutively inhibit Smoothened (Smo), the molecular target of the small molecule Hh inhibitors in clinical use for basal cell carcinoma and medulloblastoma.1, 2 Canonical Hh signaling is mediated via Smo activation, which induces stabilization and activation of the Gli family of latent zinc-finger transcription factors.1 Transcription of Gli target genes as a consequence of Smo activation such as Gli1, cMyc and Ccnd1, then transduce the major cellular effects of canonical Hh signaling.1, 2 In contrast, non-canonical Hh signaling can occur through Ptch acting as a dependence receptor independent of Smo through the regulation of Cyclin B1 and Caspase 9.1, 2
Mutations in either PTCH1 or SMO result in aberrant Hh pathway activation in medulloblastoma and basal cell carcinoma.3 Although clinical trials of small molecule inhibitors of Smo have clearly shown that these tumors are addicted to aberrant Hh signaling, results in tumors that lack activating mutations have been disappointing.4 Expression of Shh ligand is frequently seen in SCLC, and preclinical studies have shown that self-renewal of SCLC cells can be inhibited by targeting Smo with small molecules, siRNA, or by conditional genetic deletion.3, 5, 6 One model that might explain Hh pathway activation in SCLC is autocrine signaling through the overexpression of Shh ligand.5, 6 In the present study, we sought to definitively resolve the role of ligand-dependent Hh signaling in SCLC pathogenesis using a well-described conditional genetic mouse model of SCLC by determining the effects of Shh gain or loss-of-function on the tumor phenotype.
Results and discussion
Shh is necessary and sufficient for the progression of SCLC
To better define the importance of ligand-dependent Hh signaling in SCLC, we employed a well-characterized mouse model in which conditional loxP knockout alleles of both Tp53 and Rb1 can be specifically deleted in the airway epithelium.6, 7 Following the inhalation of a Cre expressing adenoviral vector (AdCre), mice carrying both p53lox/lox and Rblox/lox alleles (hereafter p53RbKO mice) develop SCLC within 9 months.6, 7 To manipulate Shh expression in this model, we crossed these animals with either gain-of-function or loss-of-function Shh alleles to observe the effects on SCLC initiation and progression in vivo.
The conditional loss-of-function allele harbors loxP sites introduced into the endogenous Shh locus flanking exon 2, with Cre-mediated recombination resulting in a frameshift mutation.8 These mice were crossed to generate p53lox/lox × Rblox/lox × Shhlox/lox triple homozygotes (hereafter p53RbKOShhKO mice). The gain-of-function allele contains a transgenic lox-EGFP-STOP-lox-Shh expression cassette driven by a constitutive promoter, allowing for Cre-mediated overexpression of mouse Shh protein9 when crossed into the p53RbKO background (hereafter, p53RbKOShhTg mice). Cohorts were treated with a single dose of a recombinant adenoviral vector expressing Cre recombinase (AdCre),10 observed for 9 months, and then killed (Figure 1a). As a quality control for AdCre delivery, mice carrying a lox-STOP-lox-βGal cassette knocked into the Rosa locus11 were included in parallel to monitor the efficacy of airway epithelial Cre-mediated recombination (Supplementary Figure 1a).
Lungs from wild type (WT), ShhKO and ShhTg mice treated with inhaled AdCre that did not carry the conditional Tp53 and Rb alleles were macroscopically and histologically normal (data not shown). In keeping with previous observations,6 p53RbKO mice developed multiple SCLC tumors 9 months after AdCre administration (Figure 1b). Strikingly, p53RbKOShhKO mice developed a similar number of tumors, most of which failed to progress beyond 1–2 mm in size (Figures 1b and c; Supplementary Figures 1b and c), and could not be propagated in cell culture. By contrast, p53RbKOShhTg animals developed much larger tumors, at a similar frequency to their p53RbKO counterparts (Figures 1b and c). Cell lines from both genotypes were generated (Supplementary Figure 1d), and expressed the pulmonary epithelial marker Thyroid Transcription Factor 1 (Ttf1), and the neuroendocrine markers Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide (Cgrp) and Cd56 (Supplementary Figure 1e). These data suggest that although deletion of Tp53 and Rb1 in the airway epithelium can initiate SCLC, Shh is required for a fully penetrant malignant phenotype.
Shh overexpression induces canonical Hh pathway activation in SCLC cells
Immunohistochemical analysis of Shh ligand expression revealed the absence or overexpression of Shh in p53RbKOShhKO or p53RbKOShhTg tumors, respectively (Figure 1d). Staining for nuclear expression of Gli2, an indirect measure of canonical Hh signaling commonly used in mouse development and cancer models12, 13 revealed heterogeneous expression in p53RbKO tumors that contrasted with absent expression in p53RbKOShhKO tumors, and widespread strong nuclear expression in p53RbKOShhTg tumors (Figure 1d). To detect the presence of cell-autonomous, ligand-dependent Hh signaling, we confirmed Shh overexpression in cells derived from p53RbKOShhTg tumors (Figure 1e), as well as overexpression of Gli1, commonly used in mouse cell culture models to measure canonical Hh signaling.1, 2 Treatment with 5E1, a monoclonal antibody that inhibits binding of Hh ligands to the Ptch1 receptor14 attenuated Gli1 expression in both p53RbKO SCLC and p53RbKOShhTg SCLC (Figure 1f). Although we cannot exclude a functional contribution of stromal Shh signaling in this model in vivo, these data show that transgenic overexpression of Shh in SCLC can trigger ligand-dependent, canonical Hh signaling in a similar way to that seen in response to mutational activation of Smo.6
Shh overexpression results in highly proliferative tumors with large cell features
As the SmoM2 allele directly activates canonical Hh signaling, one would predict that overexpression of Shh would phenocopy the effect of cell-autonomous Smo activation in SCLC.6 To compare the effects of conditional overexpression of Shh with cell-autonomous activation of Smo, we re-analyzed previously described SCLC samples from p53RbKO mice carrying a conditional active SmoM2 allele (hereafter, p53RbKOSmoM2),6 and compared these results with tumors obtained from the experiments shown in Figure 1.
As expected, tumors from p53RbKO animals developed SCLC with typical histologic features (Figure 3a).6, 7 Tumors from the p53RbShhKO cohort were characterized by less nuclear pleomorphism and scant cytoplasm (Figure 2a). By contrast, p53RbKOShhTg and p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors were highly proliferative, confirmed by quantitative immunohistochemical analysis of Pcna expression (Figures 2a and b). In tumors from all three genotypes, ubiquitous expression of Ttf1 confirmed that the tumors were of pulmonary origin (Supplementary Figure 2). In all three genotypes, heterogeneous expression of Cgrp, and Cd56 was also consistent with a neuroendocrine phenotype (Supplementary Figure 2). Unexpectedly, although p53RbKOShhTg tumors clearly possess a growth advantage, an increase in TUNEL staining suggested an increase spontaneous apoptosis compared to tumors from the other genotypes (Figures 2a and c).
Although p53RbKOShhTg and p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors both exhibited a neuroendocrine phenotype, histopathologic analysis also revealed a striking large cell phenotype in p53RbKOShhTg tumors (Figures 2a and d; Supplementary Figure 3a). By contrast, cell size in p53RbKO and p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors were more typical of SCLC (Figures 2a and d; Supplementary Figure 3a). These data show that although Shh overexpression can induce canonical Hh signaling through Smo in SCLC cells, and that the accelerated SCLC phenotype is in keeping with that seen in response to Smo activation,6 the large cell phenotype and spontaneous apoptosis conferred by overexpression of Shh was not seen in p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors. This suggested that Shh overexpression may have an additional role beyond the activation of Smo and Gli-mediated transcription.
Shh overexpression drives chromosomal instability and segmental aneuploidy in SCLC
Histologic analysis of SCLC tumors revealed an increase in the prevalence of anaphase bridges as well as bizarre mitotic figures, pleomorphic nuclei and giant cell formation in p53RbKOShhTg when compared to tumors from the other genotypes (Figures 2e and f; Supplementary Figure 3b). All of these features are characteristic of chromosomal instability.15 Other markers of chromosomal instability, such as lagging chromosomes and multipolar mitoses were similar across all four genotypes (Figure 2f).
Chromosomal instability is typically associated with segmental or numerical aneuploidy in cancer cells.16 To confirm this in our SCLC model, we performed karyotype analysis on a series of newly derived SCLC lines from p53RbKO and p53RbKOShhTg tumors, as well established cell lines from p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors.6 Cells derived from p53RbKO tumors contained a near-diploid chromosomal content, whereas p53RbKOShhTg tumors exhibited numerical aneuploidy characterized by chromosomal loss, as well as frequent segmental chromosomal defects typically seen in association with anaphase bridge formation17 (Figures 3a–c). In contrast, cells derived from p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors lacked segmental defects, and were characterized by whole-chromosome gain, more in keeping with errors in mitotic segregation17 (Figures 3a–c). These data suggest that Shh overexpression induces a pattern of chromosomal instability distinct from that resulting from ligand-independent constitutive activation of Smo.
Shh overexpression activates Ccnb1 signaling in SCLC independent of Smo
We first considered whether two well-characterized transcriptional targets of canonical Hh signaling, Myc and Cyclin D1 (Ccnd1)1, 2 might explain the chromosomal instability phenotype seen in p53RbKOShhTg tumors. In particular, Ccnd1 was an attractive candidate due to its reported ability to induce chromosomal instability in the absence of Rb.18 As shown in Supplementary Figure 4, p53RbKOShhTg and p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors showed no consistent differences in the expression of either Myc or Ccnd1 protein when comparing SCLC tumors across all genotypes. Given these data, we next asked whether non-canonical, Smo-independent Hh signaling could explain the chromosomal instability phenotype induced by overexpression of Shh.
Independent of Smo, Ptch has been shown to act as a dependence receptor by constitutively activating Caspase 9.19 As Shh overexpression induced an increase in TUNEL staining in our SCLC model, we dismissed this as a potential mechanism to explain our findings. We next focused on Cyclin B1 (Ccnb1) as a non-canonical Hh pathway target that might explain the chromosomal instability seen in p53RbKOShhTg tumors. Evidence from several groups suggests that Ptch acts as cell cycle ‘gate keeper’ by inhibiting the nuclear localization of Ccnb1, and that inhibition of Ptch through a variety of ways can lead to activation of Ccnb1 signaling independent of Smo.20, 21 Moreover, transgenic overexpression of Ccnb1 in vivo induces cancer that is associated with chromosomal instability characterized by the formation of anaphase bridges.22, 23
To test this idea, we analyzed Ccnb1 expression and localization in SCLC tumors from all four genotypes. As shown in Figures 3d and e, an increase in nuclear expression of Ccnb1 was seen in p53RbKOShhTg SCLC tumors compared with both p53RbKO and p53RbKOSmoM2 tumors. By contrast, SCLC tumors in p53RbShhKO mice expressed lower levels of Ccnb1. To confirm this result in vitro, we treated p53RbKO SCLC cells with recombinant Shh ligand in culture. This induced nuclear expression of Ccnb1, an effect that was not inhibited by treatment with the Smo antagonist LDE225 (Figures 3f and g). These data suggest that inhibition of Ptch by Shh is able to induce nuclear localization of Ccnb1 that mirrors the effect of Ptch inactivation,20 independent of Smo signaling, consistent with activation of non-canonical Hh signaling.
Ccnb1 overexpression induces chromosomal instability in cells lacking both Tp53 and Rb1
To determine whether aberrant Ccnb1 signaling could induce chromosomal instability in the absence of both Tp53 and Rb1, we employed a mouse embryonic fibroblast model in which the conditional mouse knockout lines described in Figure 1a were crossed with transgenic mice carrying a tamoxifen-inducible Cre recombinase expression cassette knocked into the Rosa26 locus.24 In preliminary experiments, we found that MEFs provide significant advantages over cultured mouse SCLC cells with respect to adherent morphology and reproducible visualization of anaphase architecture (data not shown). This allowed us to directly test the relationship between activation of Ccnb1 and the generation of chromosomal instability in cells lacking Tp53 and Rb. To do this, we used an overexpression approach to induce aberrant Ccnb1 signaling.22, 23
Mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) generated from p53RbKOEsrCre embryos were treated with tamoxifen and then allowed to spontaneously immortalize (data not shown). Using lentiviral transduction, we generated stable p53RbKOEsrCre MEF lines expressing either mCherry, or a Ccnb1-mCherry bicistronic expression vector (Figure 4a). Quantitative analysis revealed an increase in the prevalence of anaphase bridges, but not lagging chromosomes or multipolar mitoses in response to overexpression of Ccnb1 (Figures 4b and c). These data replicate the effects on anaphase morphology of Shh overexpression in the mouse SCLC model, and are consistent with the effects of Ccnb1 overexpression in a transgenic mouse tumor model.22, 23 These results suggest that upregulation of Ccnb1 can induce chromosomal instability in addition the deregulation of the cell cycle induced by the combined loss of both Tp53 and Rb1.
We have identified a definitive role for Shh ligand in the progression of SCLC in vivo using a genetically modified mouse model. This is in stark contrast to the effect of deleting Shh in pancreatic cancer precursor cells, which results in more aggressive tumors unrestrained by a stromal reaction dependent on epithelial–stromal Hh signaling.25 As activating mutations in the Hh pathway do not occur in SCLC, our findings support an important role of ligand-dependent Hh signaling in SCLC pathogenesis in vivo, and suggest that targeting Shh with monoclonal antibodies may represent a potential therapeutic opportunity.
The large cell features and chromosomal instability seen in p53RbKOShhTg tumors was unexpected. Although the conditional p53RbKO mouse model of SCLC accurately recapitulates the human disease in many respects, the slow development of tumors (9–12 months) and lack of chromosomal instability suggest that factors that cooperate with the loss of Tp53 and Rb1 contribute to the tumor biology of this disease in humans.26, 27 Although these differences may reflect the potent mutagenic effects of tobacco exposure seen in human SCLC, with recent evidence suggesting that in the genetic mouse model, cooperating genetic events can have a major impact on tumor progression.28, 29, 30 As chromosomal instability is now recognized as a critical event in tumor progression, chemoresistance, clonal heterogeneity, transcriptional and metabolic deregulation,29, 31, 32, 33 our results reveal a novel role for Shh signaling in the progression of SCLC.
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This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (GNT1048669), The Victorian Cancer Agency (TS10-01), The Petre Foundation, the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program, and the National Institutes of Health (NCI CA201513). Also, Cancer Institute of NSW Fellowship (10/FRL/ 3-02) and the Patricia Helen Guest Fellowship was awarded to JS and AB, respectively.
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Szczepny, A., Rogers, S., Jayasekara, W. et al. The role of canonical and non-canonical Hedgehog signaling in tumor progression in a mouse model of small cell lung cancer. Oncogene 36, 5544–5550 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/onc.2017.173
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