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Perrin L, Belova E, Bayarmagnai B, Tüzel E, Gligorijevic B. Invadopodia enable cooperative invasion and metastasis of breast cancer cells. Commun Biol 2022; 5:758. [PMID: 35915226 PMCID: PMC9343607 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03642-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
Abstract
Invasive and non-invasive cancer cells can invade together during cooperative invasion. However, the events leading to it, role of the epithelial-mesenchymal transition and the consequences this may have on metastasis are unknown. In this study, we demonstrate that the isogenic 4T1 and 67NR breast cancer cells sort from each other in 3D spheroids, followed by cooperative invasion. By time-lapse microscopy, we show that the invasive 4T1 cells move more persistently compared to non-invasive 67NR, sorting and accumulating at the spheroid-matrix interface, a process dependent on cell-matrix adhesions and independent from E-cadherin cell-cell adhesions. Elimination of invadopodia in 4T1 cells blocks invasion, demonstrating that invadopodia requirement is limited to leader cells. Importantly, we demonstrate that cells with and without invadopodia can also engage in cooperative metastasis in preclinical mouse models. Altogether, our results suggest that a small number of cells with invadopodia can drive the metastasis of heterogeneous cell clusters. Cooperative invasion requires the formation of invadopodia in the leader cells, and a small number of leader cells may be enough to facilitate cooperative invasion and metastasis, including non-invadopodia forming cancer cells.
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Di Martino JS, Nobre AR, Mondal C, Taha I, Farias EF, Fertig EJ, Naba A, Aguirre-Ghiso JA, Bravo-Cordero JJ. A tumor-derived type III collagen-rich ECM niche regulates tumor cell dormancy. NATURE CANCER 2022; 3:90-107. [PMID: 35121989 PMCID: PMC8818089 DOI: 10.1038/s43018-021-00291-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
Abstract
Cancer cells disseminate and seed in distant organs, where they can remain dormant for many years before forming clinically detectable metastases. Here we studied how disseminated tumor cells sense and remodel the extracellular matrix (ECM) to sustain dormancy. ECM proteomics revealed that dormant cancer cells assemble a type III collagen-enriched ECM niche. Tumor-derived type III collagen is required to sustain tumor dormancy, as its disruption restores tumor cell proliferation through DDR1-mediated STAT1 signaling. Second-harmonic generation two-photon microscopy further revealed that the dormancy-to-reactivation transition is accompanied by changes in type III collagen architecture and abundance. Analysis of clinical samples revealed that type III collagen levels were increased in tumors from patients with lymph node-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma compared to patients who were positive for lymph node colonization. Our data support the idea that the manipulation of these mechanisms could serve as a barrier to metastasis through disseminated tumor cell dormancy induction.
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- Julie S Di Martino
- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Oncological Sciences, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Precision Immunology Institute, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- University of Illinois Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Departments of Oncology, Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- University of Illinois Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine and Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Oncological Sciences, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Precision Immunology Institute, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, Cancer Dormancy and Tumor Microenvironment Institute, Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
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Ridge LA, Kewbank D, Schütz D, Stumm R, Scambler PJ, Ivins S. Dual role for CXCL12 signaling in semilunar valve development. Cell Rep 2021; 36:109610. [PMID: 34433040 PMCID: PMC8411116 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Revised: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Cxcl12-null embryos have dysplastic, misaligned, and hyperplastic semilunar valves (SLVs). In this study, we show that CXCL12 signaling via its receptor CXCR4 fulfills distinct roles at different stages of SLV development, acting initially as a guidance cue to pattern cellular distribution within the valve primordia during the endocardial-to-mesenchymal transition (endoMT) phase and later regulating mesenchymal cell proliferation during SLV remodeling. Transient, anteriorly localized puncta of internalized CXCR4 are observed in cells undergoing endoMT. In vitro, CXCR4+ cell orientation in response to CXCL12 requires phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) signaling and is inhibited by suppression of endocytosis. This dynamic intracellular localization of CXCR4 during SLV development is related to CXCL12 availability, potentially enabling activation of divergent downstream signaling pathways at key developmental stages. Importantly, Cxcr7-/- mutants display evidence of excessive CXCL12 signaling, indicating a likely role for atypical chemokine receptor CXCR7 in regulating ligand bioavailability and thus CXCR4 signaling output during SLV morphogenesis.
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- Liam A Ridge
- Developmental Biology of Birth Defects, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Developmental Biology of Birth Defects, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07747, Germany
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- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena 07747, Germany
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- Developmental Biology of Birth Defects, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Developmental Biology of Birth Defects, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK.
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Xu A, Zhou J, Li Y, Qiao L, Jin C, Chen W, Sun L, Wu S, Li X, Zhou D, Jia S, Zhang B, Yao J, Zhang X, You H, Huang J. 14-kDa phosphohistidine phosphatase is a potential therapeutic target for liver fibrosis. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2021; 320:G351-G365. [PMID: 33406007 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00334.2020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
Abstract
Liver fibrosis, a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, leads to liver damage, seriously threatening human health. In our previous study, we demonstrated that 14 kDa phosphohistidine phosphatase (PHP14) was upregulated in fibrotic liver tissue and involved in the migration and lamellipodia formation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). In this study, we evaluated PHP14 as a therapeutic target for liver fibrosis and investigated the mechanism by which it mediates liver fibrosis. AAV-shPhpt1 administration significantly attenuates CCl4-induced liver fibrosis in mice. In particular, fibrosis-associated inflammatory infiltration was significantly suppressed after PHP14 knockdown. Mechanistically, PHP14 regulated macrophage recruitment, infiltration, and migration by affecting podosome formation of macrophages. Inhibition of PHP14 decreased the expression of the fibrogenic signature at the early stage of liver fibrogenesis and the activation of HSCs in vivo. Thus, PHP14 can be considered a potential therapeutic target for liver fibrosis.NEW & NOTEWORTHY PHP14 inhibition via adeno-associated virus (AAV)-mediated gene silencing could potently attenuate carbon tetrachloride (CCl4)-induced liver fibrosis. PHP14 could regulate the migration of macrophages to the site of injury in vivo. PHP14 knockdown in vivo influenced the environment of fibrogenesis and relevant signaling pathways, subsequently affecting myofibroblast activation.
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- Anjian Xu
- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.,National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.,National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Pathology, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Clinical Laboratory Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substance and Function of Natural Medicines, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.,National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.,Liver Research Center, National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Experimental Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.,National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Defective membrane repair machinery impairs survival of invasive cancer cells. Sci Rep 2020; 10:21821. [PMID: 33311633 PMCID: PMC7733495 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77902-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Cancer cells are able to reach distant tissues by migration and invasion processes. Enhanced ability to cope with physical stresses leading to cell membrane damages may offer to cancer cells high survival rate during metastasis. Consequently, down-regulation of the membrane repair machinery may lead to metastasis inhibition. We show that migration of MDA-MB-231 cells on collagen I fibrils induces disruptions of plasma membrane and pullout of membrane fragments in the wake of cells. These cells are able to reseal membrane damages thanks to annexins (Anx) that are highly expressed in invasive cancer cells. In vitro membrane repair assays reveal that MDA-MB-231 cells respond heterogeneously to membrane injury and some of them possess a very efficient repair machinery. Finally, we show that silencing of AnxA5 and AnxA6 leads to the death of migrating MDA-MB-231 cells due to major defect of the membrane repair machinery. Disturbance of the membrane repair process may therefore provide a new avenue for inhibiting cancer metastasis.
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Juskaite V, Leitinger B. Cell-based Assay for Recruitment of DDR1 to Collagen-coated Beads. Bio Protoc 2019; 9:e3339. [PMID: 33654844 PMCID: PMC7854231 DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.3339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 07/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/02/2022] Open
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The discoidin domain receptors, DDR1 and DDR2, are key signaling receptors for the extracellular matrix protein collagen. The interactions of cells with collagen are difficult to study because of the difficulty to obtain native collagen fibers for in vitro studies. Thus, in vitro studies often use acid-soluble collagens in the form of single triple helices, which are not representative of the densely packed insoluble collagen fibers found in tissues. In this protocol, we describe a method that allows stimulating DDR1 locally with collagen-coated beads. Latex beads are first coated with acid-soluble collagen, then added to cells expressing DDR1. Recruitment of DDR1 to the beads and collagen-induced DDR1 phosphorylation is visualized by immunofluorescence microscopy on a widefield microscope. In this method, densely packed collagen is presented to cells in an insoluble form. Bead coating is easy to perform, and this method thus presents a straightforward protocol with which to study local recruitment of collagen receptors to insoluble collagen.
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- Victoria Juskaite
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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