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Jayatilleke KM, Duivenvoorden HM, Ryan GF, Parker BS, Hulett MD. Investigating the Role of Heparanase in Breast Cancer Development Utilising the MMTV-PyMT Murine Model of Mammary Carcinoma. Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:cancers15113062. [PMID: 37297024 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15113062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Revised: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Breast cancer is the second most common human malignancy and is a major global health burden. Heparanase (HPSE) has been widely implicated in enhancing the development and progression of solid tumours, including breast cancer. In this study, the well-established spontaneous mammary tumour-developing MMTV-PyMT murine model was utilised to examine the role of HPSE in breast cancer establishment, progression, and metastasis. The use of HPSE-deficient MMTV-PyMT (MMTV-PyMTxHPSE-/-) mice addressed the lack of genetic ablation models to investigate the role of HPSE in mammary tumours. It was demonstrated that even though HPSE regulated mammary tumour angiogenesis, mammary tumour progression and metastasis were HPSE-independent. Furthermore, there was no evidence of compensatory action by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in response to the lack of HPSE expression in the mammary tumours. These findings suggest that HPSE may not play a significant role in the mammary tumour development of MMTV-PyMT animals. Collectively, these observations may have implications in the clinical setting of breast cancer and therapy using HPSE inhibitors.
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Affiliation(s)
- Krishnath M Jayatilleke
- Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
- Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
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Mohamed GA, Mahmood S, Ognjenovic NB, Lee MK, Wilkins OM, Christensen BC, Muller KE, Pattabiraman DR. Lineage plasticity enables low-ER luminal tumors to evolve and gain basal-like traits. Breast Cancer Res 2023; 25:23. [PMID: 36859337 PMCID: PMC9979432 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-023-01621-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Stratifying breast cancer into specific molecular or histologic subtypes aids in therapeutic decision-making and predicting outcomes; however, these subtypes may not be as distinct as previously thought. Patients with luminal-like, estrogen receptor (ER)-expressing tumors have better prognosis than patients with more aggressive, triple-negative or basal-like tumors. There is, however, a subset of luminal-like tumors that express lower levels of ER, which exhibit more basal-like features. We have found that breast tumors expressing lower levels of ER, traditionally considered to be luminal-like, represent a distinct subset of breast cancer characterized by the emergence of basal-like features. Lineage tracing of low-ER tumors in the MMTV-PyMT mouse mammary tumor model revealed that basal marker-expressing cells arose from normal luminal epithelial cells, suggesting that luminal-to-basal plasticity is responsible for the evolution and emergence of basal-like characteristics. This plasticity allows tumor cells to gain a new lumino-basal phenotype, thus leading to intratumoral lumino-basal heterogeneity. Single-cell RNA sequencing revealed SOX10 as a potential driver for this plasticity, which is known among breast tumors to be almost exclusively expressed in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and was also found to be highly expressed in low-ER tumors. These findings suggest that basal-like tumors may result from the evolutionary progression of luminal tumors with low ER expression.
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- Gadisti Aisha Mohamed
- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
- Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
- Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA.
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- Department of Molecular and Systems Biology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA.
- Dartmouth Cancer Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, 03756, USA.
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Schreiber C, Gruber A, Roßwag S, Saraswati S, Harkins S, Thiele W, Foroushani ZH, Munding N, Schmaus A, Rothley M, Dimmler A, Tanaka M, Garvalov BK, Sleeman JP. Loss of ASAP1 in the MMTV-PyMT model of luminal breast cancer activates AKT, accelerates tumorigenesis, and promotes metastasis. Cancer Lett 2022; 533:215600. [PMID: 35181478 DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2022.215600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Revised: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
Abstract
ASAP1 is a multi-domain adaptor protein that regulates cytoskeletal dynamics, receptor recycling and intracellular vesicle trafficking. Its expression is associated with poor prognosis in a variety of cancers, and can promote cell migration, invasion and metastasis. Although amplification and expression of ASAP1 has been associated with poor survival in breast cancer, we found that in the autochthonous MMTV-PyMT model of luminal breast cancer, ablation of ASAP1 resulted in an earlier onset of tumor initiation and increased metastasis. This was due to tumor cell-intrinsic effects of ASAP1 deletion, as ASAP1 deficiency in tumor, but not in stromal cells was sufficient to replicate the enhanced tumorigenicity and metastasis observed in the ASAP1-null MMTV-PyMT mice. Loss of ASAP1 in MMTV-PyMT mice had no effect on proliferation, apoptosis, angiogenesis or immune cell infiltration, but enhanced mammary gland hyperplasia and tumor cell invasion, indicating that ASAP1 can accelerate tumor initiation and promote dissemination. Mechanistically, these effects were associated with a potent activation of AKT. Importantly, lower ASAP1 levels correlated with poor prognosis and enhanced AKT activation in human ER+/luminal breast tumors, validating our findings in the MMTV-PyMT mouse model for this subtype of breast cancer. Taken together, our findings reveal that ASAP1 can have distinct functions in different tumor types and demonstrate a tumor suppressive activity for ASAP1 in luminal breast cancer.
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- Caroline Schreiber
- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany; Institute for Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing (IBCS-BIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Campus North, D-76344 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany; Institute for Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing (IBCS-BIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Campus North, D-76344 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany; Institute for Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing (IBCS-BIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Campus North, D-76344 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Vincentius-Diakonissen-Kliniken, 76135, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Physical Chemistry of Biosystems, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany; Center for Integrative Medicine and Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany.
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- European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167, Mannheim, Germany; Institute for Biological and Chemical Systems - Biological Information Processing (IBCS-BIP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Campus North, D-76344 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Yan L, Sundaram S, Rust BM, Picklo MJ, Bukowski MR. Mammary Tumorigenesis and Metabolome in Male Adipose Specific Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 Deficient MMTV-PyMT Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet. Front Oncol 2021; 11:667843. [PMID: 34568008 PMCID: PMC8458874 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.667843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Male breast cancer, while uncommon, is a highly malignant disease. Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) is an adipokine; its concentration in adipose tissue is elevated in obesity. This study tested the hypothesis that adipose-derived MCP-1 contributes to male breast cancer. In a 2x2 design, male MMTV-PyMT mice with or without adipose-specific Mcp-1 knockout [designated as Mcp-1-/- or wild-type (WT)] were fed the AIN93G standard diet or a high-fat diet (HFD) for 25 weeks. Mcp-1-/- mice had lower adipose Mcp-1 expression than WT mice. Adipose Mcp-1 deficiency reduced plasma concentrations of MCP-1 in mice fed the HFD compared to their WT counterparts. Mcp-1-/- mice had a longer tumor latency (25.2 weeks vs. 18.0 weeks) and lower tumor incidence (19% vs. 56%), tumor progression (2317% vs. 4792%), and tumor weight (0.23 g vs. 0.64 g) than WT mice. Plasma metabolomics analysis identified 56 metabolites that differed among the four dietary groups, including 22 differed between Mcp-1-/- and WT mice. Pathway and network analyses along with discriminant analysis showed that pathways of amino acid and carbohydrate metabolisms are the most disturbed in MMTV-PyMT mice. In conclusion, adipose-derived MCP-1 contributes to mammary tumorigenesis in male MMTV-PyMT. The potential involvement of adipose-derived MCP-1 in metabolomics warrants further investigation on its role in causal relationships between cancer metabolism and mammary tumorigenesis in this male MMTV-PyMT model.
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- Lin Yan
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, United States
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, United States
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, United States
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, United States
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, United States
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Martínez-Nieto G, Heljasvaara R, Heikkinen A, Kaski HK, Devarajan R, Rinne O, Henriksson C, Thomson E, von Hertzen C, Miinalainen I, Ruotsalainen H, Pihlajaniemi T, Karppinen SM. Deletion of Col15a1 Modulates the Tumour Extracellular Matrix and Leads to Increased Tumour Growth in the MMTV-PyMT Mouse Mammary Carcinoma Model. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:9978. [PMID: 34576139 PMCID: PMC8467152 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22189978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Revised: 09/05/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Basement membrane (BM) zone-associated collagen XV (ColXV) has been shown to suppress the malignancy of tumour cells, and its restin domain can inhibit angiogenesis. In human breast cancer, as well as in many other human carcinomas, ColXV is lost from the epithelial BM zone prior to tumour invasion. Here, we addressed the roles of ColXV in breast carcinogenesis using the transgenic MMTV-PyMT mouse mammary carcinoma model. We show here for the first time that the inactivation of Col15a1 in mice leads to changes in the fibrillar tumour matrix and to increased mammary tumour growth. ColXV is expressed by myoepithelial and endothelial cells in mammary tumours and is lost from the ductal BM along with the loss of the myoepithelial layer during cancer progression while persisting in blood vessels and capillaries, even in invasive tumours. However, despite the absence of anti-angiogenic restin domain, neovascularisation was reduced rather than increased in the ColXV-deficient mammary tumours compared to controls. We also show that, in robust tumour cell transplantation models or in a chemical-induced fibrosarcoma model, the inactivation of Col15a1 does not affect tumour growth or angiogenesis. In conclusion, our results support the proposed tumour suppressor function of ColXV in mammary carcinogenesis and reveal diverse roles of this collagen in different cancer types.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/metabolism
- Breast Neoplasms/genetics
- Breast Neoplasms/pathology
- Carcinogenesis/pathology
- Cell Proliferation
- Collagen/deficiency
- Collagen/genetics
- Collagen/metabolism
- Disease Models, Animal
- Extracellular Matrix/metabolism
- Female
- Fibrosarcoma/pathology
- Fibrosis
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Humans
- Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/genetics
- Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/pathology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Animal/ultrastructure
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/physiology
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Neovascularization, Pathologic/pathology
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Stromal Cells/pathology
- Stromal Cells/ultrastructure
- Survival Analysis
- Mice
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Affiliation(s)
- Guillermo Martínez-Nieto
- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
- Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland;
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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- Oulu Center for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; (G.M.-N.); (R.H.); (A.H.); (H.-K.K.); (R.D.); (O.R.); (C.H.); (E.T.); (C.v.H.); (H.R.); (T.P.)
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Li L, Wang J, Radford DC, Kopeček J, Yang J. Combination treatment with immunogenic and anti-PD-L1 polymer-drug conjugates of advanced tumors in a transgenic MMTV-PyMT mouse model of breast cancer. J Control Release 2021; 332:652-659. [PMID: 33607175 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2021.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2020] [Revised: 02/04/2021] [Accepted: 02/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
Abstract
Immune checkpoint blockade has revolutionized the treatment of tumors with immunogenic microenvironments. However, low response rate and acquired resistance are still major challenges. Herein we used a more clinically relevant model of transgenic MMTV-PyMT tumor that more closely mimics the development of human breast cancer in an immunocompetent background to investigate a polymer-based chemo-immunotherapy. We have found that tumors acquired an increased degree of immune suppression during progression, rendering them unresponsive to anti-PD-L1 therapy. To treat large tumors at their advanced stage, we applied a combination strategy consisting of two polymer-drug conjugates that could induce immunogenic cell death (ICD) and disrupt the PD-L1/PD-1 interaction, respectively. Although ICD-inducing conjugate remodeled tumor immune microenvironment by facilitating significant CD8+ T cell infiltration, advanced tumor adapted the immune suppressive mechanism of elevating PD-L1 expression on both cancer cells and myeloid cells thereafter to enable continued tumor growth. Concurrent treatment of PD-L1 blocking conjugate not only abrogated the PD-L1 expression from the two disparate cellular sources, but also considerably reduced the number of immunosuppressive myeloid cells, thereby leading to a significant shrinkage of advanced tumors. Our data provide evidence that combinatory strategy of ICD-inducing and PD-L-blocking modalities could reverse immune suppression and establish a basis for the rational design of cancer immunotherapy.
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- Lian Li
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
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Yan L, Sundaram S, Rust BM, Picklo MJ, Bukowski MR. Metabolome of Mammary Tumors Differs from Normal Mammary Glands But Is Not Altered by Time-restricted Feeding Under Obesogenic Conditions. Anticancer Res 2020; 40:3697-3705. [PMID: 32620608 DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.14358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2020] [Revised: 05/16/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND/AIM Time restricted feeding (TRF) mitigates the high-fat diet-enhanced mammary tumorigenesis in a MMTV-PyMT breast cancer model. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed untargeted metabolomic and targeted transcriptomic analyses on mammary tumors from MMTV-PyMT mice fed a standard AIN93G diet, a high-fat diet (HFD), or HFD with TRF (12 h, dark phase) and mammary glands from wild-type mice fed the AIN93G diet. RESULTS The metabolic profile of mammary tumors differed from that of mammary glands; there was no impact of TRF upon tumor metabolome. TRF did reduce elevated expression of Hmgcr, Srebp1, Fads2, and Ppard in mammary tumors, indicating a down-regulation of lipid metabolism. CONCLUSION The null effect of TRF on the metabolomic profile does not rule out changes in more refined intracellular signaling pathways. It suggests that the protection of TRF against mammary tumorigenesis may rely upon its action on the host rather than a direct effect on tumor metabolism.
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- Lin Yan
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, U.S.A.
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, U.S.A
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, U.S.A
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, U.S.A
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, U.S.A
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Dawes RP, Burke KA, Byun DK, Xu Z, Stastka P, Chan L, Brown EB, Madden KS. Chronic Stress Exposure Suppresses Mammary Tumor Growth and Reduces Circulating Exosome TGF-β Content via β-Adrenergic Receptor Signaling in MMTV-PyMT Mice. Breast Cancer (Auckl) 2020; 14:1178223420931511. [PMID: 32595275 PMCID: PMC7301655 DOI: 10.1177/1178223420931511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Preclinical models of breast cancer have established mechanistic links between psychological stress and cancer progression. However, epidemiological evidence linking stress and cancer is equivocal. We tested the impact of stress exposure in female mice expressing the mouse mammary tumor virus polyoma middle-T antigen (MMTV-PyMT), a spontaneous model of mammary adenocarcinoma that mimics metastatic hormone receptor–positive human breast cancer development. MMTV-PyMT mice were socially isolated at 6 to 7 weeks of age during premalignant hyperplasia. To increase the potency of the stressor, singly housed mice were exposed to acute restraint stress (2 hours per day for 3 consecutive days) at 8 to 9 weeks of age during early carcinoma. Exposure to this dual stressor activated both major stress pathways, the sympathetic nervous system and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis throughout malignant transformation. Stressor exposure reduced mammary tumor burden in association with increased tumor cleaved caspase-3 expression, indicative of increased cell apoptosis. Stress exposure transiently increased tumor vascular endothelial growth factor and reduced tumor interleukin-6, but no other significant alterations in immune/inflammation-associated chemokines and cytokines or changes in myeloid cell populations were detected in tumors. No stress-induced change in second-harmonic generation-emitting collagen, indicative of a switch to a metastasis-promoting tumor extracellular matrix, was detected. Systemic indicators of slowed tumor progression included reduced myeloid-derived suppressor cell (MDSC) frequency in lung and spleen, and decreased transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) content in circulating exosomes, nanometer-sized particles associated with tumor progression. Chronic β-adrenergic receptor (β-AR) blockade with nadolol abrogated stress-induced alterations in tumor burden and cleaved caspase-3 expression, lung MDSC frequency, and exosomal TGF-β content. Despite the evidence for reduced tumor growth, metastatic lesions in the lung were not altered by stress exposure. Unexpectedly, β-blockade in nonstressed mice increased lung metastatic lesions and splenic MDSC frequency, suggesting that in MMTV-PyMT mice, β-AR activation also inhibits tumor progression in the absence of stress exposure. Together, these results suggest stress exposure can act through β-AR signaling to slow primary tumor growth in MMTV-PyMT mice.
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- Ryan P Dawes
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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Sundaram S, Yan L. Adipose monocyte chemotactic protein-1 deficiency reduces high-fat diet-enhanced mammary tumorigenesis in MMTV-PyMT mice. J Nutr Biochem 2020; 77:108313. [PMID: 31837540 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2019.108313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) is an adipokine with demonstrated carcinogenic potential. However, there is a lack of evidence whether adipose-produced MCP-1 contributes to breast cancer. We tested the hypothesis that adipose-produced MCP-1 contributes to mammary tumorigenesis in this study. In a breast cancer model of mouse mammary tumor virus-polyomavirus middle T-antigen (MMTV-PyMT), mice with or without adipose MCP-1 knockout [designated as Mcp-1-/- or wild-type (WT)] were fed the standard AIN93G diet (16% of energy from soybean oil) or a high-fat diet (HFD, 45% of energy from soybean oil). Adipose MCP-1 knockout reduced Mcp-1 expression in adipose tissue and concentrations of MCP-1 in plasma. Mcp-1-/- mice fed the HFD had less body fat than their WT counterparts. Adipose MCP-1 knockout attenuated HFD-enhanced mammary tumorigenesis, evidenced by lower mammary tumor volume. Furthermore, Mcp-1-/- mice, regardless of diet, had a longer tumor latency and less tumor weight than WT mice. When fed the HFD, Mcp-1-/- mice, compared to WT mice, exhibited lower concentrations of insulin, leptin, resistin, vascular endothelial growth factor and hepatic growth factor in plasma. In summary, adipose MCP-1 deficiency attenuated HFD-enhanced MMTV-PyMT mammary tumorigenesis. This attenuation can be attributed to less body adiposity, improvement in insulin sensitivity and down-regulation in protumorigenic inflammation cytokines and angiogenic factors in Mcp-1-/- mice. It concludes that adipose-produced MCP-1 contributes to mammary tumorigenesis in the MMTV-PyMT mouse model.
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- Sneha Sundaram
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND 58203, USA.
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND 58203, USA.
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Yan L, Nielsen FH, Sundaram S, Cao J. Dietary Selenium Supplementation Does Not Attenuate Mammary Tumorigenesis-Mediated Bone Loss in Male MMTV-PyMT Mice. Biol Trace Elem Res 2020; 194:221-227. [PMID: 31187394 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-019-01767-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2019] [Accepted: 05/29/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bone wasting occurs during the progression of breast cancer and contributes to breast cancer mortality. We evaluated the effect of methylseleninic acid (MSeA), an anti-carcinogenic form of selenium, on bone microstructural changes in the presence of mammary tumors in a male breast cancer model of mouse mammary tumor virus-polyomavirus middle T-antigen (MMTV-PyMT). In this study, we performed microcomputed tomographic analysis of femurs and vertebrae collected from a study showing that dietary supplementation with MSeA reduces mammary tumorigenesis in male mice. Compared to age-matched, non-tumor-bearing mice (MMTV-PyMT negative), the presence of mammary tumors significantly reduced the bone volume fraction, trabecular thickness, and bone mineral density while it increased the structure model index in femurs, but not in vertebrae. Moreover, mammary tumorigenesis decreased plasma concentrations of osteocalcin. Supplementation with MSeA did not affect these changes in MMTV-PyMT mice. In conclusion, mammary tumorigenesis caused bone loss in MMTV-PyMT mice. However, dietary supplementation with MSeA did not attenuate mammary tumor-associated bone loss in this model of male breast cancer.
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- Lin Yan
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, 2420 2nd Avenue North, Grand Forks, ND, 58202, USA.
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, 2420 2nd Avenue North, Grand Forks, ND, 58202, USA
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, 2420 2nd Avenue North, Grand Forks, ND, 58202, USA
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, 2420 2nd Avenue North, Grand Forks, ND, 58202, USA
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DeVette CI, Gundlapalli H, Lai SCA, McMurtrey CP, Hoover AR, Gurung HR, Chen WR, Welm AL, Hildebrand WH. A pipeline for identification and validation of tumor-specific antigens in a mouse model of metastatic breast cancer. Oncoimmunology 2019; 9:1685300. [PMID: 32002300 PMCID: PMC6959440 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2019.1685300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2019] [Revised: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Cancer immunotherapy continues to make headway as a treatment for advanced stage tumors, revealing an urgent need to understand the fundamentals of anti-tumor immune responses. Noteworthy is a scarcity of data pertaining to the breadth and specificity of tumor-specific T cell responses in metastatic breast cancer. Autochthonous transgenic models of breast cancer display spontaneous metastasis in the FVB/NJ mouse strain, yet a lack of knowledge regarding tumor-bound MHC/peptide immune epitopes in this mouse model limits the characterization of tumor-specific T cell responses, and the mechanisms that regulate T cell responses in the metastatic setting. We recently generated the NetH2pan prediction tool for murine class I MHC ligands by building an FVB/NJ H-2q ligand database and combining it with public information from six other murine MHC alleles. Here, we deployed NetH2pan in combination with an advanced proteomics workflow to identify immunogenic T cell epitopes in the MMTV-PyMT transgenic model for metastatic breast cancer. Five unique MHC I/PyMT epitopes were identified. These tumor-specific epitopes were confirmed to be presented by the class I MHC of primary MMTV-PyMT tumors and their T cell immunogenicity was validated. Vaccination using a DNA construct encoding a truncated PyMT protein generated CD8 + T cell responses to these MHC class I/peptide complexes and prevented tumor development. In sum, we have established an MHC-ligand discovery pipeline in FVB/NJ mice, identified and tracked H-2Dq/PyMT neoantigen-specific T cells, and developed a vaccine that prevents tumor development in this metastatic model of breast cancer.
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- Christa I DeVette
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Biophotonics Research Laboratory, Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Education and Research, College of Mathematics and Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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- Biophotonics Research Laboratory, Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Education and Research, College of Mathematics and Science, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA
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Mohr CJ, Gross D, Sezgin EC, Steudel FA, Ruth P, Huber SM, Lukowski R. K Ca3.1 Channels Confer Radioresistance to Breast Cancer Cells. Cancers (Basel) 2019; 11:E1285. [PMID: 31480522 DOI: 10.3390/cancers11091285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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KCa3.1 K+ channels reportedly contribute to the proliferation of breast tumor cells and may serve pro-tumor functions in the microenvironment. The putative interaction of KCa3.1 with major anti-cancer treatment strategies, which are based on cytotoxic drugs or radiotherapy, remains largely unexplored. We employed KCa3.1-proficient and -deficient breast cancer cells derived from breast cancer-prone MMTV-PyMT mice, pharmacological KCa3.1 inhibition, and a syngeneic orthotopic mouse model to study the relevance of functional KCa3.1 for therapy response. The KCa3.1 status of MMTV-PyMT cells did not determine tumor cell proliferation after treatment with different concentrations of docetaxel, doxorubicin, 5-fluorouracil, or cyclophosphamide. KCa3.1 activation by ionizing radiation (IR) in breast tumor cells in vitro, however, enhanced radioresistance, probably via an involvement of the channel in IR-stimulated Ca2+ signals and DNA repair pathways. Consistently, KCa3.1 knockout increased survival time of wildtype mice upon syngeneic orthotopic transplantation of MMTV-PyMT tumors followed by fractionated radiotherapy. Combined, our results imply that KCa3.1 confers resistance to radio- but not to chemotherapy in the MMTV-PyMT breast cancer model. Since KCa3.1 is druggable, KCa3.1 targeting concomitant to radiotherapy seems to be a promising strategy to radiosensitize breast tumors.
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Mao SPH, Park M, Cabrera RM, Christin JR, Karagiannis GS, Oktay MH, Zaiss DMW, Abrams SI, Guo W, Condeelis JS, Kenny PA, Segall JE. Loss of amphiregulin reduces myoepithelial cell coverage of mammary ducts and alters breast tumor growth. Breast Cancer Res 2018; 20:131. [PMID: 30367629 PMCID: PMC6203982 DOI: 10.1186/s13058-018-1057-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 10/02/2018] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Amphiregulin (AREG), a ligand of the epidermal growth factor receptor, is not only essential for proper mammary ductal development, but also associated with breast cancer proliferation and growth. In the absence of AREG, mammary ductal growth is stunted and fails to expand. Furthermore, suppression of AREG expression in estrogen receptor-positive breast tumor cells inhibits in-vitro and in-vivo growth. METHODS We crossed AREG-null (AREG-/-) mice with the murine luminal B breast cancer model, MMTV-PyMT (PyMT), to generate spontaneous breast tumors that lack AREG (AREG-/- PyMT). We evaluated tumor growth, cytokeratin-8 (K8)-positive luminal cells, cytokeratin-14 (K14)-positive myoepithelial cells, and expression of AREG, Ki67, and PyMT. Primary myoepithelial cells from nontumor-bearing AREG+/+ mice underwent fluorescence-activated cell sorting and were adapted to culture for in-vitro coculture studies with AT-3 cells, a cell line derived from C57Bl/6 PyMT mammary tumors. RESULTS Intriguingly, PyMT-induced lesions progress more rapidly in AREG-/- mice than in AREG+/+ mice. Quantification of K8+ luminal and K14+ myoepithelial cells in non-PyMT AREG-/- mammary glands showed fewer K14+ cells and a thinner myoepithelial layer. Study of AT-3 cells indicated that coculture with myoepithelial cells or exposure to AREG, epidermal growth factor, or basic fibroblast growth factor can suppress PyMT expression. Late-stage AREG-/- PyMT tumors are significantly less solid in structure, with more areas of papillary and cystic growth. Papillary areas appear to be both less proliferative and less necrotic. In The Cancer Genome Atlas database, luminal-B invasive papillary carcinomas have lower AREG expression than luminal B invasive ductal carcinomas. CONCLUSIONS Our study has revealed a previously unknown role of AREG in myoepithelial cell development and PyMT expression. AREG expression is essential for proper myoepithelial coverage of mammary ducts. Both AREG and myoepithelial cells can suppress PyMT expression. We find that lower AREG expression is associated with invasive papillary breast cancer in both the MMTV-PyMT model and human breast cancer.
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MESH Headings
- Amphiregulin/genetics
- Amphiregulin/metabolism
- Animals
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/genetics
- Antigens, Polyomavirus Transforming/metabolism
- Cell Line, Tumor
- Cell Proliferation
- Epithelial Cells/pathology
- Epithelial Cells/virology
- Female
- Humans
- Mammary Glands, Animal/cytology
- Mammary Glands, Animal/pathology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/genetics
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/pathology
- Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental/virology
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/genetics
- Mammary Tumor Virus, Mouse/pathogenicity
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Neoplasm Invasiveness/pathology
- Polyomavirus/genetics
- Polyomavirus/immunology
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- Serena P. H. Mao
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Integrated Imaging Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Integrated Imaging Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Immunology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263 USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Integrated Imaging Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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- Kabara Cancer Research Institute, Gundersen Medical Foundation, La Crosse, WI 54601 USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1301 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
- Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461 USA
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Feinberg TY, Zheng H, Liu R, Wicha MS, Yu SM, Weiss SJ. Divergent Matrix-Remodeling Strategies Distinguish Developmental from Neoplastic Mammary Epithelial Cell Invasion Programs. Dev Cell 2018; 47:145-160.e6. [PMID: 30269950 PMCID: PMC6317358 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Revised: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Metastasizing breast carcinoma cells have been hypothesized to mobilize tissue-invasive activity by co-opting the proteolytic systems employed by normal mammary epithelial cells undergoing branching morphogenesis. However, the critical effectors underlying morphogenesis remain unidentified, and their relationship to breast cancer invasion programs is yet to be established. Here, we identify the membrane-anchored matrix metalloproteinase, Mmp14/MT1-MMP, but not the closely related proteinase Mmp15/MT2-MMP, as the dominant proteolytic effector of both branching morphogenesis and carcinoma cell invasion in vivo. Unexpectedly, however, epithelial cell-specific targeting of Mmp14/MT1-MMP in the normal mammary gland fails to impair branching, whereas deleting the proteinase in carcinoma cells abrogates invasion, preserves matrix architecture, and completely blocks metastasis. By contrast, in the normal mammary gland, extracellular matrix remodeling and morphogenesis are ablated only when Mmp14/MT1-MMP expression is specifically deleted from the periductal stroma. Together, these findings uncover the overlapping but divergent strategies that underlie developmental versus neoplastic matrix remodeling programs.
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- Tamar Y Feinberg
- Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA
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- Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, 5000 LSI, 210 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2216, USA; Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Rogel Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Sundaram S, Yan L. Time-restricted feeding mitigates high-fat diet-enhanced mammary tumorigenesis in MMTV-PyMT mice. Nutr Res 2018; 59:72-79. [PMID: 30442235 DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2018.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2018] [Revised: 07/02/2018] [Accepted: 07/29/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Erratic eating behavior disrupts the daily feeding and fasting pattern and leads to metabolic dysfunction and chronic diseases including cancer. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that time-restricted feeding of a high-fat diet (HFD) to the dark phase does not enhance mammary tumorigenesis in MMTV-PyMT mice. Female mice were assigned to 3 groups and fed the standard AIN93G diet or an HFD with or without dark phase restricted feeding (12 hours). The duration of restricted feeding was 8 weeks. The HFD group had 24% more body fat mass than the AIN93G group; the body fat mass of the restricted group remained similar to that of the AIN93G group. Energy intake of the restricted group was similar to that of the HFD and AIN93G groups. The median mammary tumor latency was 5.8, 7.0, and 6.4 weeks for the AIN93G, HFD, and restricted groups, respectively. Mammary tumor progression was 241% higher in the HFD group than that in the AIN93G group; there was no significant difference in tumor progression between the restricted and AIN93G groups. Plasma concentrations of leptin, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, angiopoietin-2, vascular endothelial growth factor, and hepatocyte growth factor were significantly higher in the HFD group than those in the control group; these measurements were similar between the restricted and control groups. In conclusion, feeding restricted to the dark phase mitigates the HFD-enhanced mammary tumorigenesis; this may be related to the lower body adiposity and associated inflammatory and angiogenic signals.
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- S Sundaram
- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA.
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- US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA.
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Ekiz HA, Lai SCA, Gundlapalli H, Haroun F, Williams MA, Welm AL. Inhibition of RON kinase potentiates anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy to shrink breast tumors and prevent metastatic outgrowth. Oncoimmunology 2018; 7:e1480286. [PMID: 30228950 PMCID: PMC6140584 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2018.1480286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 05/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The advent of immune checkpoint blockade as a new strategy for immunotherapy has changed the outlook for many aggressive cancers. Although complete tumor eradication is attainable in some cases, durable clinical responses are observed only in a small fraction of patients, underlining urgent need for improvement. We previously showed that RON, a receptor tyrosine kinase expressed in macrophages, suppresses antitumor immune responses, and facilitates progression and metastasis of breast cancer. Here, we investigated the molecular changes that occur downstream of RON activation in macrophages, and whether inhibition of RON can cooperate with checkpoint immunotherapy to eradicate tumors. Activation of RON by its ligand, MSP, altered the gene expression profile of macrophages drastically and upregulated surface levels of CD80 and PD-L1, ligands for T-cell checkpoint receptors CTLA-4 and PD-1. Genetic deletion or pharmacological inhibition of RON in combination with anti-CTLA-4, but not with anti-PD-1, resulted in improved clinical responses against orthotopically transplanted tumors compared to single-agent treatment groups, resulting in complete tumor eradication in 46% of the animals. Positive responses to therapy were associated with higher levels of T-cell activation markers and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. Importantly, co-inhibition of RON and anti-CTLA-4 was also effective in clearing metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs, resulting in clinical responses in nearly 60% of the mice. These findings suggest that RON inhibition can be a novel approach to potentiate responses to checkpoint immunotherapy in breast cancer.
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- Huseyin Atakan Ekiz
- Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Oncological Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Sundaram S, Yan L. Dietary Supplementation with Methylseleninic Acid Inhibits Mammary Tumorigenesis and Metastasis in Male MMTV-PyMT Mice. Biol Trace Elem Res 2018; 184:186-195. [PMID: 29032404 DOI: 10.1007/s12011-017-1188-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Accepted: 10/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
Abstract
Male breast cancer, which makes up approximately 1% of all breast cancers, is an aggressive disease with poor prognosis. We investigated the effects of dietary supplementation with selenium in the form of methylseleninic acid [(MSeA) 2.5 mg selenium/kg] on mammary tumorigenesis in male MMTV-PyMT mice. The mammary tumor latency was 14.6 weeks for the MSeA-fed group and 13.8 weeks for the controls fed the AIN93G diet (p < 0.05). Dietary supplementation with MSeA, versus the control, resulted in a 72% reduction in tumor progression, a 46% reduction in both final volume and weight of mammary tumors, and a 70% reduction in the number of lung metastases. Mammary tumorigenesis in MMTV-PyMT mice, versus non-tumor-bearing wild-type mice, resulted in significant increases in concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, urokinase plasminogen activator, monocyte chemotactic protein-1, and vascular endothelial growth factor, but not aromatase and estrogen, in the plasma. Concentrations of all variables mentioned above in both plasma and mammary tumors were lower in MSeA-fed mice. Mammary tumorigenesis reduced plasma levels of adiponectin compared to non-tumor-bearing controls. Adiponectin concentrations in mammary tumors, but not in plasma, were higher in MSeA-fed mice than in controls. In summary, dietary supplementation with selenium in the form of MSeA inhibits mammary tumorigenesis and its pulmonary metastasis in male MMTV-PyMT mice.
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- Sneha Sundaram
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, 58202, USA
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, 58202, USA.
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Michael IP, Orebrand M, Lima M, Pereira B, Volpert O, Quaggin SE, Jeansson M. Angiopoietin-1 deficiency increases tumor metastasis in mice. BMC Cancer 2017; 17:539. [PMID: 28800750 PMCID: PMC5553747 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3531-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2017] [Accepted: 08/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Background Angipoietin-1 activation of the tyrosine kinase receptor Tek expressed mainly on endothelial cells leads to survival and stabilization of endothelial cells. Studies have shown that Angiopoietin-1 counteracts permeability induced by a number of stimuli. Here, we test the hypothesis that loss of Angiopoietin-1/Tek signaling in the vasculature would increase metastasis. Methods Angiopoietin-1 was deleted in mice just before birth using floxed Angiopoietin-1 and Tek mice crossed to doxycycline-inducible bitransgenic ROSA-rtTA/tetO-Cre mice. By crossing Angiopoietin-1 knockout mice to the MMTV-PyMT autochthonous mouse breast cancer model, we investigated primary tumor growth and metastasis to the lung. Furthermore, we utilized B16F10 melanoma cells subcutaneous and experimental lung metastasis models in Angiopoietin-1 and Tek knockout mice. Results We found that primary tumor growth in MMTV-PyMT mice was unaffected, while metastasis to the lung was significantly increased in Angiopoietin-1 knockout MMTV-PyMT mice. In addition, angiopoietin-1 deficient mice exhibited a significant increase in lung metastasis of B16F10 melanoma cells, compared to wild type mice 3 weeks after injection. Additional experiments showed that this was likely an early event due to increased attachment or extravasation of tumor cells, since seeding of tumor cells was significantly increased 4 and 24 h post tail vein injection. Finally, using inducible Tek knockout mice, we showed a significant increase in tumor cell seeding to the lung, suggesting that Angiopoietin-1/Tek signaling is important for vascular integrity to limit metastasis. Conclusions This study show that loss of the Angiopoietin-1/Tek vascular growth factor system leads to increased metastasis without affecting primary tumor growth.
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- Iacovos P Michael
- Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Dag Hammarskjoldsvagen 20, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Matrix Dynamics Group, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Dag Hammarskjoldsvagen 20, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Urology, RH Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University, Dag Hammarskjoldsvagen 20, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women in the world. Although breast cancer is well treatable at the early stage, patients with distant metastases show a poor prognosis. Data from recent studies using transplantation models indicate that Mint3/APBA3 might promote breast cancer malignancy. However, whether Mint3 indeed contributes to tumor development, progression, or metastasis in vivo remains unclear. To address this, here we examined whether Mint3 depletion affects tumor malignancy in MMTV-PyMT breast cancer model mice. In MMTV-PyMT mice, Mint3 depletion did not affect tumor onset and tumor growth, but attenuated lung metastases. Experimental lung metastasis of breast cancer Met-1 cells derived from MMTV-PyMT mice also decreased in Mint3-depleted mice, indicating that host Mint3 expression affected lung metastasis of MMTV-PyMT-derived breast cancer cells. Further bone marrow transplant experiments revealed that Mint3 in bone marrow-derived cells promoted lung metastasis in MMTV-PyMT mice. Thus, targeting Mint3 in bone marrow-derived cells might be a good strategy for preventing metastasis and improving the prognosis of breast cancer patients.
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- Toshiro Hara
- Division of Cancer Cell Research, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, 108-8639 Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, 108-8639 Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Cancer Cell Research, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, 108-8639 Tokyo, Japan; Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical, Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences, Kanazawa University, Takara-machi, 920-8641 Kanazawa, Japan
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- Division of Cancer Cell Research, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, 108-8639 Tokyo, Japan; Division of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, 108-8639 Tokyo, Japan.
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Sundaram S, Yan L. High-fat Diet Enhances Mammary Tumorigenesis and Pulmonary Metastasis and Alters Inflammatory and Angiogenic Profiles in MMTV-PyMT Mice. Anticancer Res 2017; 36:6279-6287. [PMID: 27919947 DOI: 10.21873/anticanres.11223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2016] [Revised: 09/27/2016] [Accepted: 09/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The MMTV-PyMT transgenic mouse model is commonly used to study luminal B subtype, which has a lower prevalence but a worse prognosis than luminal A subtype among patients with breast cancer. The objective of the present study was to determine whether an obesogenic, high-fat diet enhances primary tumorigenesis and pulmonary metastasis in female MMTV-PyMT mice. The high-fat diet slightly but significantly increased caloric intake and body fat mass compared to the AIN93G diet. The high-fat diet significantly increased primary mammary tumor progression by 59%, primary tumor weight by 60%, and the number of lung metastases by 147%. Compared to the AIN93G diet, the high-fat diet significantly increased the abundance of proinflammatory cytokines (e.g. leptin, monocyte chemotactic protein-1, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, resistin, and tumor necrosis factor-α) and angiogenic factors (e.g. hepatocyte growth factor, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase inhibitor-1, and vascular endothelial growth factor) in plasma and mammary tumors. We conclude that the obesogenic high-fat diet enhances primary tumorigenesis and metastasis in MMTV-PyMT mice. This enhancement may be the result of increased proinflammation and angiogenesis signaling.
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- Sneha Sundaram
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, U.S.A
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- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, U.S.A.
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Gross ETE, Han S, Vemu P, Peinado CD, Marsala M, Ellies LG, Bui JD. Immunosurveillance and immunoediting in MMTV-PyMT-induced mammary oncogenesis. Oncoimmunology 2016; 6:e1268310. [PMID: 28344881 DOI: 10.1080/2162402x.2016.1268310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Revised: 11/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Evidence of cancer immunosurveillance and immunoediting processes has been primarily demonstrated in mouse models of chemically induced oncogenesis. Although these models are very tractable, they are characterized by high mutational loads that represent a minority of human cancers. In this study, we sought to determine whether cancer immunosurveillance and immunoediting could be demonstrated in a more clinically relevant oncogene-induced model of carcinogenesis, the MMTV-PyMT (PyMT) mammary carcinoma model. This model system in the FVB/NJ strain background was previously used to demonstrate that adaptive immunity had no role in limiting primary cancer formation and in fact promoted metastasis, thus calling into question whether cancer immunosurveillance operated in preventing the development of breast cancer. Our current study in the C57BL/6 strain backgrounds provides a different conclusion, as we report here the existence of an adaptive immunosurveillance of PyMT mammary carcinomas using two independent models of immune deficiency. PyMT mice bred onto a Rag1-/- background or immune suppressed by chronic tacrolimus therapy both demonstrated accelerated development of mammary carcinomas. By generating a bank of cell lines from these animals, we further show that a subset of PyMT cell lines had delayed growth after transplantation into wild-type (WT) syngeneic, but not immune-deficient hosts. This reduced growth rate in immunocompetent animals was characterized by an increase in immune cell infiltration and tissue differentiation. Furthermore, loss of the immune cell infiltration that characterized immunoediting of slow growing cell lines, changed them into fast growing variants capable of progressing in the immunocompetent model. In conclusion, our study provides evidence that immunosurveillance and immunoediting of PyMT-derived cell lines modulate tumor progression in this oncogene-induced model of cancer.
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- Emilie T E Gross
- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego , San Diego, CA, USA
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Jiang Z, Chen J, Du X, Cheng H, Wang X, Dong C. IL-25 blockade inhibits metastasis in breast cancer. Protein Cell 2017; 8:191-201. [PMID: 27909985 DOI: 10.1007/s13238-016-0345-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2016] [Accepted: 10/26/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Metastasis is the leading cause of death in breast cancer patients. However, the mechanisms underlying metastasis are not well understood and there is no effective treatment in the clinic. Here, we demonstrate that in MMTV-PyMT, a highly malignant spontaneous breast tumor model, IL-25 (also called IL-17E) was expressed by tumor-infiltrating CD4+ T cells and macrophages. An IL-25 neutralization antibody, while not affecting primary tumor growth, substantially reduced lung metastasis. Inhibition of IL-25 resulted in decreased type 2 T cells and macrophages in the primary tumor microenvironments, both reported to enhance breast tumor invasion and subsequent metastasis to the lung. Taken together, our data suggest IL-25 blockade as a novel treatment for metastatic breast tumor.
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Moreau JM, Mielnik M, Berger A, Furlonger C, Paige CJ. Tumor-secreted products repress B-cell lymphopoiesis in a murine model of breast cancer. Eur J Immunol 2016; 46:2835-2841. [PMID: 27618761 DOI: 10.1002/eji.201646552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2016] [Revised: 08/03/2016] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Growing cancers are known to modify immune responses through suppressive mechanisms manifested within the local tumor microenvironment. Accumulating evidence indicates that secreted tumor products can also influence on distant immunological compartments, including myelopoiesis in the bone marrow. However, it is unknown if a similar effect can occur to regulate B-cell lymphopoiesis in breast cancer. Examining the MMTV-PyMT murine model of breast cancer, we show a complete block in bone marrow B-cell lymphopoiesis, which is dependent on tumor burden. We also observed an increase in the total number of splenic B cells and an elevated frequency of marginal zone B cells. By using in vitro assays of B-cell lymphopoiesis, we show that tumor-secreted molecules directly inhibit B-cell progenitor proliferation and favor maturation. These data demonstrate a profound sensitivity of B-cell lymphopoiesis to the accumulation of ectopically produced molecules during tumor growth in PyMT.
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- Joshua M Moreau
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Browne G, Dragon JA, Hong D, Messier TL, Gordon JAR, Farina NH, Boyd JR, VanOudenhove JJ, Perez AW, Zaidi SK, Stein JL, Stein GS, Lian JB. MicroRNA-378-mediated suppression of Runx1 alleviates the aggressive phenotype of triple-negative MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells. Tumour Biol 2016; 37:8825-39. [PMID: 26749280 DOI: 10.1007/s13277-015-4710-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 12/20/2015] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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The Runx1 transcription factor, known for its essential role in normal hematopoiesis, was reported in limited studies to be mutated or associated with human breast tumor tissues. Runx1 increases concomitantly with disease progression in the MMTV-PyMT transgenic mouse model of breast cancer. Compelling questions relate to mechanisms that regulate Runx1 expression in breast cancer. Here, we tested the hypothesis that dysregulation of Runx1-targeting microRNAs (miRNAs) allows for pathologic increase of Runx1 during breast cancer progression. Microarray profiling of the MMTV-PyMT model revealed significant downregulation of numerous miRNAs predicted to target Runx1. One of these, miR-378, was inversely correlated with Runx1 expression during breast cancer progression in mice and in human breast cancer cell lines MCF7 and triple-negative MDA-MB-231 that represent early- and late-stage diseases, respectively. MiR-378 is nearly absent in MDA-MB-231 cells. Luciferase reporter assays revealed that miR-378 binds the Runx1 3' untranslated region (3'UTR) and inhibits Runx1 expression. Functionally, we demonstrated that ectopic expression of miR-378 in MDA-MB-231 cells inhibited Runx1 and suppressed migration and invasion, while inhibition of miR-378 in MCF7 cells increased Runx1 levels and cell migration. Depletion of Runx1 in late-stage breast cancer cells resulted in increased expression of both the miR-378 host gene PPARGC1B and pre-miR-378, suggesting a feedback loop. Taken together, our study identifies a novel and clinically relevant mechanism for regulation of Runx1 in breast cancer that is mediated by a PPARGC1B-miR-378-Runx1 regulatory pathway. Our results highlight the translational potential of miRNA replacement therapy for inhibiting Runx1 in breast cancer.
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- Gillian Browne
- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Vermont, 95 Carrigan Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry & University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 89 Beaumont Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05405, USA.
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Lozy F, Cai-McRae X, Teplova I, Price S, Reddy A, Bhanot G, Ganesan S, Vazquez A, Karantza V. ERBB2 overexpression suppresses stress-induced autophagy and renders ERBB2-induced mammary tumorigenesis independent of monoallelic Becn1 loss. Autophagy 2014; 10:662-76. [PMID: 24492513 PMCID: PMC4091153 DOI: 10.4161/auto.27867] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Defective autophagy has been implicated in mammary tumorigenesis, as the gene encoding the essential autophagy regulator BECN1 is deleted in human breast cancers and Becn1+/− mice develop mammary hyperplasias. In agreement with a recent study, which reports concurrent allelic BECN1 loss and ERBB2 amplification in a small number of human breast tumors, we found that low BECN1 mRNA correlates with ERBB2-overexpression in breast cancers, suggesting that BECN1 loss and ERBB2 overexpression may functionally interact in mammary tumorigenesis. We now report that ERBB2 overexpression suppressed autophagic response to stress in mouse mammary and human breast cancer cells. ERBB2-overexpressing Becn1+/+ and Becn1+/− immortalized mouse mammary epithelial cells (iMMECs) formed mammary tumors in nude mice with similar kinetics, and monoallelic Becn1 loss did not alter ERBB2- and PyMT-driven mammary tumorigenesis. In human breast cancer databases, ERBB2-expressing tumors exhibit a low autophagy gene signature, independent of BECN1 mRNA expression, and have similar gene expression profiles with non-ERBB2-expressing breast tumors with low BECN1 levels. We also found that ERBB2-expressing BT474 breast cancer cells, despite being partially autophagy-deficient under stress, can be sensitized to the anti-ERBB2 antibody trastuzumab (tzb) by further pharmacological or genetic autophagy inhibition. Our results indicate that ERBB2-driven mammary tumorigenesis is associated with functional autophagy suppression and ERBB2-positive breast cancers are partially autophagy-deficient even in a wild-type BECN1 background. Furthermore and extending earlier findings using tzb-resistant cells, exogenously imposed autophagy inhibition increases the anticancer effect of trastuzumab on tzb-sensitive ERBB2-expressing breast tumor cells, indicating that pharmacological autophagy suppression has a wider role in the treatment of ERBB2-positive breast cancer.
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- Fred Lozy
- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Division of Medical Oncology; Department of Internal Medicine; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Piscataway, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA
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- Rutgers University; State University of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey; New Brunswick, NJ USA; Division of Medical Oncology; Department of Internal Medicine; Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Piscataway, NJ USA
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