Zhang Mingda, Chen Guoyu, Lin Xiaolin, Zhang Yingwen, Shi Longyu, Li Shanshan, Li Yanxin, Xiao Xiuying, Feng Haizhong
State Key Laboratory of Systems Medicine for Cancer, Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200127, China.
Department of Oncology, Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China.
Theranostics. 2025 Jul 24;15(16):8202-8221. doi: 10.7150/thno.113382. eCollection 2025.
Gastric cancer (GC) with ovarian metastasis (OM) represents a distinct subtype of peritoneal metastasis in female patients, characterized by limited therapeutic options and poor prognosis, with molecular features and mechanisms that remain unknown. We performed whole-exome sequencing (WES) analysis of matched GC samples, with OM or peritoneal metastasis (PM), to identify mutational profiles that contribute to OM. We further validate these findings through in vitro and in vivo experiments. We characterized specific mutated genes in GC with OM, including , , , , , , and . Moreover, these genomic mutations are recurrent in both GC and ovarian cancer. We further identified the E620K mutation of , a Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor, as a novel risk locus in GC with OM. Ectopic expression of the E620K mutant increased cell migration, invasion and colony formation in vitro, as well as OM in animals bearing GC xenograft tumors. Mechanistically, E620K mutation upregulated expression through Rap1 signaling pathway activation and promoted tumor-derived ITGA6-high exosome formation, which were preferentially uptaken by ovarian fibroblasts. Reciprocally, ovarian fibroblasts educated by ITGA6high exosomes exhibited cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) phenotypes and enhanced tumor cell proliferation, thereby initiating the early stage of pre-metastatic niche formation. Our study provides comprehensive clinical exome profiling, identifies mutation as a new driver, and reveals that ITGA6 acts as an early predictive marker in GC with OM.
伴有卵巢转移(OM)的胃癌(GC)是女性患者腹膜转移的一种独特亚型,其特点是治疗选择有限且预后较差,分子特征和机制尚不清楚。我们对匹配的伴有OM或腹膜转移(PM)的GC样本进行了全外显子组测序(WES)分析,以确定促成OM的突变谱。我们通过体外和体内实验进一步验证了这些发现。我们对伴有OM的GC中的特定突变基因进行了表征,包括 、 、 、 、 、 和 。此外,这些基因组突变在GC和卵巢癌中均有复发。我们进一步确定了Rho鸟嘌呤核苷酸交换因子 的E620K突变是伴有OM的GC中的一个新的风险位点。E620K突变体的异位表达在体外增加了细胞迁移、侵袭和集落形成,在携带GC异种移植肿瘤的动物中也增加了OM。从机制上讲,E620K突变通过Rap1信号通路激活上调了 表达,并促进了肿瘤来源的ITGA6高外泌体的形成,这些外泌体被卵巢成纤维细胞优先摄取。相反,由ITGA6高外泌体诱导的卵巢成纤维细胞表现出癌症相关成纤维细胞(CAF)表型并增强了肿瘤细胞增殖,从而启动了转移前生态位形成的早期阶段。我们的研究提供了全面的临床外显子组分析,确定 突变是一个新的驱动因素,并揭示ITGA6在伴有OM的GC中作为早期预测标志物。
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