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Multipotent mammary cancer stem cells integrate stem cell and clonal expansion theories of tumor progression

ABSTRACT: The diversity of human breast cancer subtypes has led to the hypothesis that breast cancer is a number of different diseases arising from cells at various stages of differentiation. We have derived clonal multipotent metastatic mammary cancer stem cells from the polyomavirus middle T mouse model of breast cancer, that can differentiate into luminal, myoepithelial and alveolar cells. When injected orthotopically at low-density, the resulting tumors express estrogen and progesterone receptors. With continued passage in vivo, the tumor cells undergo additional epigenetic and/or genetic changes that result in upregulation of Her2 expression or clonal expansion of cells that give rise to basal-like or claudin-low tumors. As in human tumors, the more aggressive tumor subtypes express nuclear p53. The temporal sequence of events suggests that contrary to current dogma, multiple tumor subtypes can originate from a single multipotent cancer stem cell that undergoes evolution during tumor progression. Furthermore, these data raise the possibility that a human polyomavirus may be a causative agent in spontaneous forms of human breast cancer.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE61138 | GEO | 2014/09/12

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA260312

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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