carcinogenesis tee l. guidotti dept. of environmental and occupational health gwumc
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Carcinogenesis
Tee L. GuidottiDept. of Environmental and
Occupational Health
GWUMC
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Characteristics of Toxicological Mechanisms
Carcinog. Immune ToxicityTarget Genome Immune ReceptorThres-hold
? NoThreshold
Recog-nition
Threshold,dose-dep.
Outcome Stereotyp Stereotyp MultipleResponse Stochastic Nonstoch. Dose-dep.Latency Long Short Variable
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Characteristics of a Cancer• Uncontrolled growth
– beyond normal hyperplasia in vivo
– loss of cell-cell inhibition in vitro
– anaplasia (highly variable)
– apoptosis (normal cell death) defective
• Tendency to invade surrounding tissue
• Tendency to travel beyond site of origin– metastasis may occur late
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Early Theories of Carcinogenesis
• Surfeit of black bile (Hippocrates)• Omnis cellula ex cellula (Bichat, Pasteur)• Irritation hypothesis (Virchow)
– medicolegal issues
– persists as lay theory
• Embryonic hypothesis (teratomas, etc.)• Parasitic hypothesis
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Recent Theories of Carcinogenesis
• Chemical carcinogenesis– derived from observations by Pott, 1775– major line of mechanistic oncology every since
• Viral theory of carcinogenesis
• Two-stage mechanism of Ca.genesis– two processes: initiation, promotion– followed by progression
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Steps in Chemical Carcinogenesis
1. Biotransformation
2. Initiation: Covalent binding to DNA
3. Fixation: Mutation stabilized by mitosis
4. Gene expression, transformation
5. Neoplastic growth, proliferation
6. Progression, local effects
7. Metastasis
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Initiation - 1• Biotransformation:
– procarcinogenultimate carcinogen
• Interaction with macromolecules– silent binding to other receptors
• covalent binding to critical DNA sites– repairnormal cell + DNA adducts– cytotoxicity– fixationinitiation
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Initiation - 2
• Induced transcription errors• DNA polymerase• Binding to oncogenes
– regions of genome that code for cell growth and differentiation
– may result in cell transformation
• Binding to tumour suppressor genes– apoptosis
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Oncogenes - 1• Oncogenes are activated, unregulated versions of
protooncogenes• Protooncogenes normal genes encoding for
protein kinase and other growth signals• Their gene products stimulate cell growth• Viral oncogenes are altered copies of
protooncogenes• 20% of human tumours show oncogenes
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Oncogenes - 2
• Single copies of oncogenes are sufficient to result in malignant transformation
• Oncogene products are convenient biomarkers of effect
• Thought by some to be underlying mechanism (distinct from cause) of all Ca
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Tumour Suppressor Genes• Genes that block neoplastic growth, e.g.
p53• Functional opposites of oncogenes, hence originally
named anti-oncogenes• Very difficult to identify and characterize• Characteristic double allelic activity:
– both alleles must be damaged for malignant activity– retinoblastoma follows “two hit” model
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InitiationPromotion - 1• Cell affected by Ca.gen must replicate for
Ca to occur
• Cell division fixes the mutation in daughter cells
• Promoters induce rapid tissue growth – irritation or necrosis
– hyperplasia and stimulate growth
• Fixation occurs when mutation is passed on
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InitiationPromotion - 2
• Initiator = Carcinogen
• Cocarcinogen interacts with initiator, may be an initiator itself
• Promoter acts at same time or after initiator, is not (usually) initiator alone at dosage at which it promotes
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Initiation by Physical Means
• Ionizing radiation– h + O2free radicalsDNA damage
• Nonionizing radiation– UV between 280 - 320 nmpyrimidine
dimers?
• Epigenetic Ca.gens: Asbestos, silica, foreign bodies
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Initiation by Biological Agents
• Human viral pathogens– oncogenic retroviruses (HIV)
– DNA viruses (Epstein-Barr, HSV-2, papilloma, HBV)
• Bacteria, biotransformation
• Endoparasites (Schistomsoma spp.)
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Promotion - 1
• “Incomplete” carcinogen requires a promoter
• “Complete” carcinogen both initiates and promotes
• Stimulation of cell division for fixation
• Not genotoxic
• Dose-dependent, may have threshold
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Promotion - 2• Promoters induce small foci of
“preneoplastic” proliferation where transformed cells reside in tissues
• Selection pressure favours more rapidly proliferating foci
• At high concentrations, cytotoxic promoters may inhibit carcinogenesis by negative selection pressure on susceptible cells
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Promoters - 3
• Promoters are mitogens, may be endogenous as well as exogenous– hormones (estrogen, prolactin, thyroxin)
• Exogenous promoters– phorbol esters (experimental)
– phenobarbital
– foreign bodies
– aromatic hydrocarbons (also initiators)
– dioxin (most potent in animal studies)
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Progression
• Proliferation of successful clone• Adaptive growth• Dormancy period in many cases, ends
for many reasons (hormonal, nutritional, lymphokines, immunodeficiency etc.)
• Tumour vascularization, angiogenesis• Develops into detectable tumour
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Predisposing Factors - Genetic
• Metabolism, biotransformation• Rare AuD cancers
– familial polyposis straight AuD)
– retinoblastoma (two hit model)
• Predisposition to initiation• Inaccurate repair mechanisms• Immunodeficiency
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Predisposing Factors - Dietary• Caloric intake
• Protein deficiency, high fat
• Carotenes and retinoids - deficiency
• Tocopherols - deficiency
• Selenium (glutathione peroxidase) - deficiency
• Zinc deficiency
• Flavanoids (enzyme inhibition) - deficiency