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The Suprabasal Expression of 6ß4 Integrin Is Associated with a High Risk for Malignant Progression in Mouse Skin Carcinogenesis¹

Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892

Enhanced expression of the 6ß4 integrin complex has been linked to malignant progression in mouse skin carcinogenesis. To determine if 6ß4 expression can predict risk for malignant conversion among populations of benign skin tumors, we analyzed the distribution of 6ß4 and other markers of progression in papillomas at high and low risk for malignant progression. After initiation with 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene, mice were promoted with 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate to induce predominantly low risk tumors or promoted with mezerein to produce predominantly high risk tumors. When tumors first appeared at 8 weeks after promotion, high risk papillomas demonstrated basal and suprabasal 6ß4 expression, loss of keratin 1, and aberrant expression of keratin 13. In these tumors 6ß4 expression coincided with an expansion of the proliferating compartment as indicated by suprabasal bromodeoxyuridine labeling. In contrast, 6ß4 immunostaining was confined to basal cells in low risk tumors, keratin 1 was abundant, and keratin 13 was absent in the majority of this group, while proliferating cells were largely in the basal compartment. By 33 weeks, 6ß4 suprabasal expression continued to distinguish groups at higher risk for malignant conversion, but keratin 13 was expressed in all groups. At this time, high risk tumors displayed focal expression of keratin 8 and -glutamyltranspeptidase, markers also found in chemically induced carcinomas. Keratin 8 and -glutamyltranspeptidase were expressed only in 6ß4 positive cells. These results indicate that expression of 6ß4 integrin in suprabasal strata serves as an early predictive marker to identify benign squamous tumors at high risk for malignant progression.

¹ This work was supported by a grant from Johnson and Johnson, Consumer Products.

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed, at Building 37, Room 3B25, Laboratory of Cellular Carcinogenesis and Tumor Promotion, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Received 4/ 2/93. Accepted 8/11/93.

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