c-Met interaction with Angiogenesis and Stem Cell in Helicobacter heilmannii-induced gastric MALT lymphoma: Interaction with VASH-2

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• We established a low-grade MALT lymphoma model in C57BL/6 mouse infection of Helicobacter heilmannii obtained from cynomolgus monkey (Infect. Immun. 75 (3): 1214-1222, 2007). After long-term infection, we found the MALT lymphoma formation in the liver and lung in addition to gastric MALT lymphoma. Recently, c-MET, the tyrosine kinase receptor for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has attracted attention as one of the key players in survival and proliferation of B-cell malignancies.Thus, we have planned to clarify the difference of c-MET, HGF and HGF activator (HGFA) expression as well as VEGF and its receptors, Flt-1, Flk-1 and vasohibin-2 (VASH2) in gastric, hepatic and pulmonary lesions in the MALT lymphoma by immunohistochemistry. The effect of c-MET antibodies or inhibitor, PHA-665752 (10 mg/kg b.w.) on the formation of liver and lung lesion was also investigated.As a result, Nine months after the infection, small lymphocyte aggregates mostly composed of B cells were observed in the portal area of the liver and the peribronchial area of the lung as well as the gastric MALT lymphoma in approximately 50% of the infected mice. These lymphocytes were mostly centrocyte-like cells, and lymphoepithelial lesions characteristic of MALT lymphoma were also recognized. PCR and in situ hybridization analysis showed the existence of Helicobacter heilmannii not only in the fundic mucosa but in the lung and liver. Twelve and eighteen months after the infection, approximately 100% of infected mice had hepatic and pulmonary lesions. c-MET immunoreactivity was found in the lymphocytes composing the MALT lymphoma, and HGF immunoreactivity was recognized mostly in the endothelial cells and macrophages. HGFA was localized on mesenchymal cells other than the lymphocytes. The administration of antibodies against c-MET or a c-Met inhibitor to the infected mice induced the significant suppression of hepatic and pulmonary lesions as well as the gastric MALT lymphoma, while VASH2 immunoreactivity rather increased within the tumor.In conclusion, HGF and c-MET pathway were suggested to contribute to the lymphomagenesis and the VASH2 has a compensatory effect in the liver and lung after Helicobacter heilmannii infection.

著者

• Nakamura Masahiko

  School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University

• Matsui Hidenori

  Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences and Graduate School of Infection Control Sciences, Kitasato University

• Hibi Toshifumi

  Kitasato Institute Hospital

• Takahashi Tetsufumi

  School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University

• Takahashi Shinichi

  3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine

• Tsuchimoto K.

  School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kitasato University

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