LKB1 as the ghostwriter of crypt history
Open Access
- 30 July 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Familial Cancer
- Vol. 10 (3), 437-446
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10689-011-9469-3
Abstract
Familial cancer syndromes present rare insights into malignant tumor development. The molecular background of polyp formation and the cancer prone state in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome remain enigmatic to this day. Previously, we proposed that Peutz-Jeghers polyps are not pre-malignant lesions, but an epiphenomenon to the malignant condition. However, Peutz-Jeghers polyp formation and the cancer-prone state must both be accounted for by the same molecular mechanism. Our contribution focuses on the histopathology of the characteristic Peutz-Jeghers polyp and recent research on stem cell dynamics and how these concepts relate to Peutz-Jeghers polyposis. We discuss a protracted clonal evolution scenario in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome due to a germline LKB1 mutation. Peutz-Jeghers polyp formation and malignant transformation are separately mediated through the same molecular mechanism played out on different timescales. Thus, a single mechanism accounts for the development of benign Peutz-Jeghers polyps and for malignant transformation in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome.Keywords
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