Abstract
Abstract
Background
In previous publications, the author developed the theory of carcino-evo-devo, which predicts that evolutionarily novel organs should recapitulate some features of tumors in their development.
Main text
Mammalian adipose is currently recognized as a multi-depot metabolic and endocrine organ consisting of several adipose tissues. Although lipid-storing cells and proteins are ancient, the adipose organ as a whole is evolutionarily novel to mammals. The adipose expansion has remarkable similarities with the growth of solid tumors. These similarities are the following: (1) The capability to unlimited expansion; (2) Reversible plasticity; (3) Induction of angiogenesis; (4) Chronic inflammation; (5) Remodeling and disfunction; (6) Systemic influence on the organism; (7) Hormone production; (8) Production of miRNAs that influence other tissues; (9) Immunosuppression; (10) DNA damage and resistance to apoptosis; (11) Destructive infiltration in other organs and tissues. These similarities include the majority of “hallmarks of cancer”. In addition, lipomas are the most frequent soft tissue tumors, and similar drugs may be used for the treatment of obesity and cancer by preventing infiltration. This raises the possibility that obesity, at least in part, may represent an oncological problem. The existing similarities between adipose and tumors suggest the possible evolutionary origin of mammalian adipose from some ancestral benign mesenchymal hereditary tumors. Indeed, using a transgenic inducible zebrafish tumor model, we described many genes, which originated in fish and were expressed in fish tumors. Their human orthologs LEP, NOTCH1, SPRY1, PPARG, ID2, and CIDEA acquired functions connected with the adipose organ. They are also involved in tumor development in humans.
Conclusion
If the hypothesis of the evolutionary origin of the adipose organ from the ancestral hereditary tumor is correct, it may open new opportunities to resolve the oncological problem and the problem of the obesity epidemic. New interventions targeting LEP, NOTCH1, SPRY1, PPARG, ID2, and CIDEA gene network, in addition to what already is going on, can be designed for treatment and prevention of both obesity and tumors.
Funder
Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Cancer Research,Infectious Diseases,Oncology,Epidemiology
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