Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL): A need for a murine model with retinal hemangioblastoma

Histol Histopathol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 August 1.

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Histol Histopathol. 2012 August; 27(8): 975–984.

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Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL): A need for a murine model with retinal hemangioblastoma

Stanley Park^1,² and Chi-Chao Chan¹

¹Immunopathology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

²Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA

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Summary

Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a highly penetrant autosomal dominant systemic malignancy that gives rise to cystic and highly vascularized tumors in a constellation of organs. Patients with VHL disease commonly present with hemangioblastomas in the central nervous system and the eye while other manifestations include pheochromocytoma, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, endolymphatic sac tumors of the middle ear, pancreatic cystadenomas, epididymal and broad ligament cystadenomas. Animal models inactivating the VHL gene product in various organ tissues have been constructed over the past 15 years to parse its HIF-associated mechanisms and its link to tumorigenesis. These models, despite advancing our understanding the molecular role of VHL, are by and large unable to recapitulate the more common features of human VHL disease. Up to date, no model exists that develop retinal hemangioblastomas, the most common clinical manifestation. The purpose of this review is: (1) to discuss the need for an ocular VHL model, (2) to review the animal models that recapitulate clinical VHL disease and (3) to propose potential mechanisms of tumorigenesis for the development of ocular VHL.

Keywords: von Hippel-Lindau, Retinal hemangioblastoma, Animal model, Tumorigenesis, Eye

Introduction

Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) is an autosomal dominant disease that results in a constellation of cysts or highly vascularized tumors. It has an incidence of approximately 1 in 36,000 live births and has a mean age of onset at 26 years (Lonser et al., 2003). VHL is an age-dependent and highly penetrant disease with the more common manifestations being retinal hemangioblastomas, cerebellar and spinal hemangioblastomas, clear cell renal cell carcinomas (CCRCC), pheochromocytomas, endolymphatic sac tumors of the middle ear, neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas and cystadenomas in the pancreas, broad ligament, and epididymis (Maher et al., 1990; Lonser et al., 2003). Less common finding involve liver and pulmonary hemangiomas (McGrath et al., 1992; Takahashi et al., 2006)

The VHL gene is found on the 3p25 chromosome (Seizinger et al., 1988). The earliest known mechanism for the pathogenesis of VHL disease is explained by Knudson’s 2 hit hypothesis- one allele of VHL is usually an inherited mutant copy while the second one is acquired (Knudson, 1971). This is typically accomplished through somatic mutation or inactivation by hypermethylation. Familial VHL is categorized into two types, I and II, and is based the presence of pheochromocytoma. Type I have a low risk of developing pheochromocytoma. Type II, on the other hand, has high risk for developing pheochromocytoma. Type II is further subdivided into IIA, IIB, and IIC based on risk of developing clear cell renal cell carcinoma in addition to pheochromocytoma. Patients in IIA have low risk, IIB have high risk and IIC have no risk (Zbar et al., 1996).

The gene product, VHL protein (pVHL), is a part of an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex that ubiquitylates the hypoxia inducible factor α (HIFα) subunit leading to rapid degradation. This ubiquitin complex is comprised of several other proteins namely cullin2, elongin B, elongin C, NEDD8 and Rbx1 (Sufan et al., 2004). HIF is a transcription factor can activate various angiogeneic factors such as erythropoietin (EPO) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). HIF’s α subunit is oxygen sensitive and is hydroxylated by prolyl-4-hydroxylase domain proteins. In the presence of oxygen, iron and ascorbate the reaction occurs and HIF is able to bind to pVHL for degradation. Conversely, in hypoxic conditions, it is not hydroxylated and is unable to bind pVHL leading to its stabilization. There are hundreds of HIF target genes involved in: angiogenesis, tumor formation, response to therapy, survival, invasion, and metabolism. A succinct yet comprehensive review on HIF, including the things just mentioned, has recently been written elsewhere (Semenza, 2011). pVHL plays a role in HIF-independent pathways as well. It is involved in microtubule stability, ECM deposition and maintenance, senescence, neuronal apoptosis, cell survival and apoptosis. These functions are explained in another recent review (Li and Kim, 2011).

This review briefly describes the animal models for VHL disease. It discusses the need for an animal model that characterizes retinal hemangioblastoma, the mechanisms for tumorigenesis and a possible strategy to accomplish this in the eye.

VHL disease animal models

With the need to better characterize the role of pVHL plays in the disease it is named after, new techniques for developing sophisticated animal models could not come at a better time (Gu et al., 1994; Feil et al., 1996). The first VHL animal model lead to an aberrant placental development that was lethal to the embryo. The mice perished in utero at E10.5 and E12.5 (Gnarra et al., 1997). However, the use of VHL conditional knockouts in mice has proven to be an effective approach to delineate the role of VHL in individual organ systems.

Eye

VHL-associated retinal hemangioblastomas occurs in over 60% of patients (Welch, 1970; Singh et al., 2001b) and is the first manifestation of the disease in 43% of patients (Maher et al., 1990). Visual symptoms can occur as early as in the later teens and bilaterality is common (Singh et al., 2001a; Wong et al., 2008). The most common clinical finding of these retinal hemangioblastomas is a highly vascularized tumor in the superiotemporal region of the retina (Singh et al., 2001a; Dollfus et al., 2002) (Fig. 1). Complications of the disease usually entail exudative or tractional effects surrounding the tumor (Kreusel et al., 2006). In a recent cross sectional study, vision loss in 335 patients with VHL-associated retinal hemangioblastomas more likely occurred when the lesions were in the juxtapapillary region, it was also a function of the patients age, and lastly it was related to the number and size of tumors in the periphery (Wong et al., 2008). This study also showed that although bilaterallity is common, the rate of bilateral visual impairment is less common due to the asymmetric disease burden. However, the tumor can still lead to blindness and the rate of significant morbidity in one eye remains high. In addition, there is currently no effective treatment for these severe cases.

Fig. 1

Fundus photograph of a patient with retinal hemangioblastoma (arrow) in the temporal periphery of the right eye. Two dilated vessels emanate from the tumor. Marked yellow exudation surrounds the tumor and extends into the posterior pole. (Courtesy of (more ...)

Retinal hemangioblastomas are generally treated with cryotherapy or laser photocoagulation and patients enjoy a 72% and 74% success rate respectively (Singh et al., 2002). A study showed that patients with smaller lesions (less than 1.5 mm) were more likely to remain stable. Those that progressed in this group were well controlled with cryotherapy or photocoagulation (Singh et al., 2002). On the other hand, larger tumors have been shown to be non-responsive to medical treatment- a retrospective study of three patients showed that for lesions between 7–9 mm, surgical resection improved visual acuity or kept it the same (Liang et al., 2007; Schlesinger et al., 2007). The understanding of pVHL as described above has led to the exploration of targeting vasculogenic entities such as VEGF and platelet derived growth factor (PDGF) (Rosenblatt and Azar, 2006). However the efficacy of agents in this class such as SU5416, bevacizumab, sunitinib, ranibizumab and pegaptanib are uncertain (Aiello et al., 2002; Girmens et al., 2003; Madhusudan et al., 2004; Rosenblatt and Azar, 2006; von Buelow et al., 2007).

With regards to refining treatment through improved pre-clinical diagnoses and disease surveillance, there have been recent genotype-phenotype correlations with respect to prognoses (Wong et al., 2007). In this study it was shown that complete deletions of pVHL was associated with better visual acuity and decreased incidence of retinal hemangioblastomas compared to missense and truncating mutations of VHL. In a more recent cross-sectional study of the same but expanded group of 412 VHL patients, it was shown that missense mutations of the VHL subunit is associated with increased incidence of ocular disease and higher associations with juxtapapillary lesions (Mettu et al., 2010).

To date, there is still no suitable model to study hemangioblastomas of the CNS and the retina. A zebrafish model has been developed that expresses retinal neovascularization by vascular leakage, retinal edema and detachment (van Rooijen et al., 2010). Studies have shown increased VEGF and CXCR4A in the CNS in these zebrafish. Indeed, this model manifests certain aspects of age related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and some cases of VHL (Chew, 2005). However the zebrafish does not develop hemangioblastomas, van Rooijen and colleagues were able use this zebrafish model to demonstrate inhibition of angiogenesis through the administration of VEGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibition, namely sunitinib and 676475.

Dysregulation of hypoxic factors in retinal astrocytes can contribute to pathological angiogenesis. GFAPcre/VHLf/f astrocyte conditional knockout mice showed that HIF-2α driven overexpression of VEGF led to severe hypervascularity in the retina starting from P7 until adulthood localized in the superficial vascular plexus (Weidemann et al., 2010).

In short, though there are mouse models that target VHL in the eye, none are able to develop retinal hemangioblastomas to serve as a viable model to study. Preclinical animal studies are a necessity for the advancement of targeted therapies as they afford the ability to observe the tumor’s interaction with the microenvironment. In the case of VHL, it is understood that the VHL inactivated stromal cells (tumor cells) act on the surrounding endothelial cells (Chan et al., 1999; Vortmeyer et al., 2003) (Fig. 2). An ocular orthotopic xenograft model may also prove useful for studying efficacy, side effects and toxicities of targeted therapies (Fig. 3). Studies in CCRCC xenografts shed light on the potential efficacy of PDGF/VEGF receptor inhibitors, mTOR inhibitors and others (Alleman et al., 2004; Clark, 2009; Hammers et al., 2010; Duignan et al., 2011; Karam et al., 2011; Nagaprashantha et al., 2011). In addition, drugs like topotecan and digoxin can effectively block HIF synthesis at low concentrations (Melillo, 2007; Zhang et al., 2008). It would be worthwhile to test such therapeutics for ocular VHL as well. A genetic mouse model would be useful to study the disease pathogenesis of ocular VHL and may prove to be a superior model of clinical VHL disease.

Fig. 2

Photomicrograph retinal hemangioblastoma. Many vacuolated “foamy” stromal cells (arrows) reside among the thin capillary-like channels. Hematoxylin & eosin. x 400

Fig. 3

Orthotopic xenograft model for ocular VHL. A. Macroscopic photograph of a SCID mouse 2 weeks following intraocular injection of UMRC-6 cells, a human clear cell renal cell carcinoma cell line, shows intraocular tumor cells obscured the view of the fundus. (more ...)

Kidney

CCRCC is a malignancy of the kidney that arises sporadically or hereditarily through VHL inactivation. Rankin and her colleagues were the first group to successfully create a model that generated renal microcysts and macrocysts with similar morphological and molecular features found in VHL-associated renal disease (Rankin et al., 2006). Using the Cre-loxp system, they deleted VHL expression from the proximal tubule using the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxy kinase (PEPCK)-promoter to drive Cre expression. This was sufficient enough to generate cystic lesions with benign clear cell morphology, an indicative preneoplastic characteristic. Further, to test which element downstream VHL had a greater contribution to the phenotype, the group created a double knockout of this model by knocking out its heterodimer partner Arnt (also called HIFβ) or HIF1α. Interestingly, VHL/HIF1α dKO was unable to prevent cyst formation but rather the VHL/HIF2α dKO and VHL/HIFβ dKO models were able to stop cyst formation. Furthermore, it is thought that pVHL’s role in ciliary maintenance contributes to cyst formation. In the background of pVHL inactivation, the additional inhibition of GSK3β, through overexpression of the PI2K signaling, causes loss of primary cilia (Thoma et al., 2007a,b). The group did not report any progression of these cysts into CCRCC in these mice. Molecular mechanisms and appropriate genetic backgrounds have yet to be elucidated.

Other tissue specific models shed light on associations with CCRCC. Glomerulus specific deletions of VHL have led to the development of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (Ding et al., 2006), a known association with CCRCC (Kagan et al., 1993). In addition, it has been shown that VHL is crucial in maintenance of the ultrastructure and barrier functions of the glomerular basement membrane as VHL deficiency results in proteinuria, ectopic collagen deposition and membrane thickening (Steenhard et al., 2010).

Pancreas

Patients with VHL may present with pancreatic cysts and neuroendocrine tumors (Lubensky et al., 1998; Mohr et al., 2000). Mice models, with the exception of one (Shen et al., 2009) showed none of the characteristic pancreatic cysts and neuroendocrine tumors that are seen in patients with VHL (Cantley et al., 2009; Puri et al., 2009; Choi et al., 2011). Shen and colleagues produced a model using the insulin promoter factor 1 (Pdx) promoter to drive Cre expression. Survivors secondary to incomplete penetrance expressed highly vascularized cysts and microcystic adenomas by knocking out VHL expression in the entire pancreas. With regards to the other models, possible explanations include that the cysts and tumors do not arise from the Cre transgenes the model was made from. Another possibility is that other events are required to take place before these masses arise. Also, there is a lack of overexpression of HIF2α in pancreatic cells (Wiesener et al., 2003; Cantley et al., 2009). HIF is a crucial player for tumor formation in other VHL associated tumors (Raval et al., 2005).

Reproductive tract

Benign cysts of the broad ligament of the uterus in females and of the epididymis in males are not uncommon in those with VHL disease. Pten, a tumor suppressor involved in the regulation of PI2K-AKT-mTOR pathway (Maehama and Dixon, 1998; Cantley and Neel, 1999; Burgering and Medema, 2003; Vivanco et al., 2007) is absent and HIF1α is elevated in human clear cell cystadenoma tissue (Glasker et al., 2006). Ksp1.3-Cre mice were crossed with Vhlh^fl/fl mice and Pten^fl/fl mice. Ksp-cadherin is a unique, tissue-specific member of the cadherin family of cell adhesion molecules that is expressed in tubular epithelial cells in the kidney and developing genitourinary tract. The engineered mice were then intercrossed to generate a VHL and Pten double deficient mouse model specific for the epithelium of the genital tract. These mice were able to recapitulate clear cell cystadenoma of the genital tract in both male and females (Frew et al., 2008). Mice with a single knockout displayed only a mild phenotype. Interestingly, squamous metaplasia was also observed which is not associated with VHL.

Liver

Hepatohemangiomas are an extremely rare VHL disease phenotype with only a few documented case reports (McGrath et al., 1992; Takahashi et al., 2006). A mouse model that acutely inactivated VHL in utero resulted in embryonic lethality with necrosis to the liver and vasculature defects (Hong et al., 2006). One mouse model that conditionally inactivated VHL in hepatocytes led to hepatic hemangiomas (Haase et al., 2001). Similarly, another model that conditionally deactivated VHL in a mosaic pattern in multiple organs showed hepatic hemangiomas as well as angiectasias in the pancreas, heart, lung, and kidney (Ma et al., 2003). In both models, the liver pathology was reported histologically similar to CNS hemangioblastomas. For liver hemangiomas, as seen in other organs, the pathogenesis of these hemangiomas appears to be HIF2α dependent and HIF1α independent (Rankin et al., 2005, 2008). HIF also seems to play a role in liver lipid metabolism, EPO production, iron homeostasis, and mitochondrial respiration (Peyssonnaux et al., 2007; Rankin et al., 2007, 2009; Kucejova et al., 2011).

Summary of murine VHL models

Current animal models can partially capture VHL disease of a particular organ (Table 1). However, much work is still needed to develop one that can progress to recapitulate VHL disease. Other manifestations of VHL disease such as endolymphatic sac tumors of the middle ear, pheochromocytoma, cerebellar and cervical hemangioblastomas are not seen in any of the aforementioned models. In addition, non-VHL disease associated phenotypes may also arise from mutated VHL protein product. Chuvash polycythemia is an exceedingly rare condition unrelated to the classical VHL disease. It arises from point mutations, R200W and H191D, in the VHL gene. This gives rise to polycythemia but none are at risk for any cancer (Ang et al., 2002; Pastore et al., 2003a,b; Bento et al., 2005; Perrotta et al., 2006). This disease has been successfully modeled in rodents (Hickey et al., 2007). Finally, the role of pVHL has been explored in areas not associated with VHL disease such as the heart, chondrocytes, integument, gastronintestinal tract, immune system, mammary glands and host defense (Cramer et al., 2003; Biju et al., 2004; Karhausen et al., 2004; Pfander et al., 2004; Neumann et al., 2005; Peyssonnaux et al., 2005; Boutin et al., 2008; Lei et al., 2008; Seagroves et al., 2010).

Table 1

Available animal models for VHL disease.

Perspective on VHL tumorigenesis and potential strategies for designing models that may develop ocular VHL-associated tumors

It is possible that VHL mutation alone may not sufficient to develop VHL-associated neoplasms. The mutations can be altering the less-understood HIF-independent pathways (Champion et al., 2008) or other oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes (Chan et al., 2002). It has been shown that the loss of VHL gene does not promote tumor growth in primary cells (Mack et al., 2003) while it has been shown in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cell lines, the loss of VHL gene promotes growth and the re-introduction of wild type VHL gene suppresses tumor growth (Gnarra et al., 1996; Iliopoulos et al., 1996). Additional mutations in the RCC could be responsible for this growth advantage in the setting of VHL deficiency. Studies on cytogenetic patterns of chromosomal loss and gain in human CCRCC tumor tissue samples have been done. The cytogenetic profiles were from various stages of tumor progression show that −3p, +5q, −14q, +7 and −8p are the most frequent alterations. The 3p loss is often associated with 5q gain due to unbalanced translocations and this is usually followed by continual deletions on 3p secondary to genome instability (Pei et al., 2010; Zhang et al., 2010; Bhat Singh and Amare Kadam, 2012).

pVHL’s contribution to tumorigenesis may be due to a parallel dysregulation of its HIF-independent functions. A well-known clinical example of this hypothesis is that patients with Class IIC VHL develop pheochromocytoma yet they have a functioning VHL-HIF axis (Hoffman et al., 2001). Pheochromocytoma-associated VHL disease results from an accumulation of JUNB, which is an inhibitor of the pro-apoptotic molecule JUN. JUN is implicated in modulating excessive growth of sympathetic neurons and may be protective from the formation of pheochromocytoma (Lee et al., 2005). Another example involves renal and genital tract cyst formation in VHL disease. Studies have shown that tubular epithelial cells that encase these cysts have lost pVHL function. Loss of pVHL can lead to microtubule instability and subsequent defective ciliary function and cyst formation (Thoma et al., 2007a, b). Research in CCRCC shows that deficient pVHL prevents β-catenin for degredation leading to dysregulation of Wnt signaling and subsequent contribution to tumorigenesis (Linehan et al., 2009). Finally, pVHL has recently been shown to have a novel tumor suppressor function. It marks Skp2 for degradation in an E3 ubiquitin ligase independent manner resulting in increased p27/kip1, which results in S-phase arrest and prevents cell proliferation in the context of DNA damage. In pVHL deficient RCC tissue, Skp2 levels are pathologically elevated with low p27/kip1 (Roe et al., 2011).

It is also important to consider the origin from which VHL associated tumors arise. Since the VHL-associated tumor cells are actually the stromal component of the mass (Chan et al., 1999; Vortmeyer et al., 2003), they may arise from the arrested hemangioblast progenitor cells (Wilkinson et al., 1990; Vortmeyer et al., 1997; Huber et al., 2004; Chan et al., 2005). It has been shown, in CNS and retinal hemangioblastomas, that they express cell markers of mesoderm-derived hemangioblasts and hematopoietic stem cells. These cells have been shown to differentiate into either endothelial or hematopoietic cells when cultured under the appropriate conditions (Park et al., 2007). Interestingly, it appears that HIF2α maintains cell pluripotency on the OCT4 transcription factor (Chan et al., 2005; Covello et al., 2006). Other factors may also be required. Whatever the cause is, tumor development from HIF2α-expressing arrested hemangioblasts seems associated with acquired expression of HIF1α, brachyury and other hemangioblast developmental markers (Shively et al., 2011).

Creating an animal model using knock-in missense mutations in targeted areas of the VHL gene rather than using whole deletions may confer an ocular VHL phenotype. Common VHL point mutations like R167Q in embryonic stem (ES) cells, and more generally, mutations in the alpha domain, causes impairment of elongin C binding to VHL which has been shown to impair HIF2α regulation and intriguingly has a growth advantage over VHL deleted ES cells (Bonicalzi et al., 2001; Lee et al., 2009). In VHL deficient tumors, blocking HIF2α suppresses tumor progression and reintroduction of degradation resistant HIF2α causes tumor progression (Kondo et al., 2003; Zimmer et al., 2004). It is also possible that there are unidentified neighboring genes in chromosome 3p that may be tumorigeneic. Deletions may provide a measure of protection from tumor formation whereas point mutations would not affect these genes. Brk1 maps near the VHL gene and it functions as a regulator of the actin cytoskeleton. Loss of this gene is protective against tumors and causes defects in migration in RCC and other tumors (Escobar et al., 2010). To reiterate from before, the study reported by Wong and colleagues has showed a distinct genotype-phenotype correlation in VHL patients with retinal hemangioblastomas. Those with complete deletions have better visual acuity and decreased incidence of retinal hemangioblastomas. Patients with missense mutations had higher incidence of ocular disease. The most frequent mutation was found at codon 167 (Wong et al., 2007; Mettu et al., 2010). Retinal hemangioblastomas begin to occur in much younger VHL patients and so it is within the realm of possibility that its pathogenesis may very well not be as complicated as CCRCC’s. A missense mutation may be adequate to produce an ocular VHL phenotype but it is always possible that a background of additional engineered mutations and/or microenvironment factors are also needed.

VHL is a complicated systemic disease that has important functions for the entire body mainly through HIF-dependent and HIF-independent pathways. Parsing out each pathway that is tumorigenic for the eye remains a challenge. However, it is a necessary task in order to understand the disease and to treat patients with VHL-associated retinal hemangioblastoma.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the NIH intramural research program.

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