Mutagenesis, Vol. 16, No. 4, 309-315,
July 2001
© 2001 UK Environmental Mutagen Society/Oxford University Press
Intestinal tumours induced by the food carcinogen 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine in multiple intestinal neoplasia mice have truncation mutations as well as loss of the wild-type Apc+ allele
Department of Environmental Medicine, National Institute of Public Health, PO Box 4404 Nydalen, N-0403, Oslo, Norway
C57BL/6J-Min/+ (multiple intestinal neoplasia) is a murine model for familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), where the mice are heterozygous for a nonsense ApcMin (adenomatous polyposis coli) mutation, and therefore develop numerous spontaneous adenomas in the small intestine and colon. Neonatal exposure of Min/+ mice to the food carcinogen 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) (eight subcutaneous injections of 25 or 50 mg/kg PhIP to pups or 50 mg/kg PhIP to lactating dams) markedly increased (2–9-fold) the number of intestinal tumours, especially in the small intestine. We examined whether the Apc gene was affected in small intestinal and colonic tumours induced by PhIP. In spontaneous tumours formed in these mice, the main mechanism for tumour induction is loss of the wild-type Apc+ allele, i.e. loss of heterozygosity (LOH). Also in the PhIP-induced tumours, this is a major mechanism, since large fractions of PhIP-induced tumours had LOH in Apc. However, mechanisms other than LOH must also prevail, since a lower frequency of LOH was found in the small intestinal tumours from male mice exposed to PhIP either via breast milk (65%) or by direct injection (68%), compared with the untreated controls (92%). Tumours that had retained the wild-type Apc+ allele were further analysed for presence of truncated Apc proteins with in vitro synthesized protein (IVSP) assay. Truncated Apc proteins, indicating truncation mutations in exon 15 of the Apc gene, were detected in 20% (8 of 40) of the tumours not showing LOH from the small intestine after PhIP exposure, all in segment 2 (codons 686–1217). Seventeen percent (2 of 12) of the colonic tumours had a truncated Apc protein in segment 3 (codons 1099–1693). Importantly, no truncated proteins were detected in tumours from unexposed mice with apparently retained wild-type Apc+ allele. These results show that PhIP induces intestinal tumours in the Min/+ mice both by causing LOH and truncation mutations in the wild-type Apc+ allele.
Å.Andreassen and R.Vikse contributed equally to this work
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: jan.alexander{at}folkehelsa.no
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