Stromal myofibroblasts drive tumorigenesis in Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome polyposis models

Germline mutations in LKB1 predispose to hereditary Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS), manifesting with gastrointestinal polyposis. We discovered that conditional deletion of Lkb1 in stromal fibroblasts using Fsp1-Cre leads to expansion of stromal cells and gastrointestinal polyposis in mice. Here we have investigated gene expression signatures in the Fsp1-Cre;Lkb1fl/fl mouse polyps harbouring bi-allelic deletion of Lkb1 in stromal cells together with wild-type epithelium. We provide RNA-seq gene expression data of 6 polyps, 4 adjacent gastric mucosa samples and 5 wild-type gastric mucosa samples from littermate controls. Our experiment demonstrates e.g. activated cytokine signaling and inflammatory pathways in the polyps.