Epidermal Tissue Adapts to Restrain Progenitors Carrying Clonal p53 Mutations.

ABSTRACT: Aging human tissues, such as sun-exposed epidermis, accumulate a high burden of progenitor cells that carry oncogenic mutations. However, most progenitors carrying such mutations colonize and persist in normal tissue without forming tumors. Here, we investigated tissue-level constraints on clonal progenitor behavior by inducing a single-allele p53 mutation (Trp53^R245W; p53^∗/wt), prevalent in normal human epidermis and squamous cell carcinoma, in transgenic mouse epidermis. p53^∗/wt progenitors initially outcompeted wild-type cells due to enhanced proliferation, but subsequently reverted toward normal dynamics and homeostasis. Physiological doses of UV light accelerated short-term expansion of p53^∗/wt clones, but their frequency decreased with prot

SUBMITTER: Murai K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224607 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature