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Tumor-derived Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Is a Critical Factor in Tumor Expansion and Vascular Function¹

Departments of Biology and Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 [J. G., W. G. R., O. M-C., R. S. J.] and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Hormone Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143 [D. H.]

There is considerable controversy concerning the importance of tumor-derived angiogenic factors to the neovascularization of solid tumors. Tumor, endothelial, and stromal expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have been hypothesized to be critical for tumor angiogenesis. To determine the relative contribution of tumor versus nontransformed tissue expression of VEGF to tumor growth, we used gene targeting and cre-loxP recombination to generate embryonic stem cell lines in which VEGF can be conditionally deleted. These lines were used to derive mouse embryonic fibroblast lines with null mutations in both alleles of VEGF. Upon immortalization and H-ras transformation, we used these VEGF null fibroblasts to make fibrosarcomas in immunocompromised mice. We report that tumorigenic VEGF expression is critical for ras-mediated tumorigenesis, and the loss of tumorigenic expression causes dramatic decreases in vascular density and vascular permeability and increases in tumor cell apoptosis.

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