癌症研究
转移
愤怒(情绪)
血管生成
肿瘤微环境
生物
癌变
基因敲除
癌症
细胞培养
遗传学
神经科学
肿瘤细胞
作者
Taekyoung Kwak,Katherine Drews-Elger,Ayse Burcu Ergonul,Philip Miller,Alexander E. Braley,Gyong Ha Hwang,Daqing Zhao,Alexandra H. Besser,Yasuhiko Yamamoto,Hiroshi Yamamoto,Dorraya El-Ashry,Joyce M. Slingerland,Marc E. Lippman,Barry I. Hudson
出处
期刊:Oncogene
[Springer Nature]
日期:2016-09-26
卷期号:36 (11): 1559-1572
被引量:97
摘要
The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is highly expressed in various cancers and is correlated with poorer outcome in breast and other cancers. Here we tested the role of targeting RAGE by multiple approaches in the tumor and tumor microenvironment, to inhibit the metastatic process. We first tested how RAGE impacts tumor cell-intrinsic mechanisms using either RAGE overexpression or knockdown with short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs). RAGE ectopic overexpression in breast cancer cells increased MEK-EMT (MEK-epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition) signaling, transwell invasion and soft agar colony formation, and in vivo promoted lung metastasis independent of tumor growth. RAGE knockdown with multiple independent shRNAs in breast cancer cells led to decreased transwell invasion and soft agar colony formation, without affecting proliferation. In vivo, targeting RAGE shRNA knockdown in human and mouse breast cancer cells, decreased orthotopic tumor growth, reduced tumor angiogenesis and recruitment of inflammatory cells, and markedly decreased metastasis to the lung and liver in multiple xenograft and syngeneic mouse models. To test the non-tumor cell microenvironment role of RAGE, we performed syngeneic studies with orthotopically injected breast cancer cells in wild-type and RAGE-knockout C57BL6 mice. RAGE-knockout mice displayed striking impairment of tumor cell growth compared with wild-type mice, along with decreased mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling, tumor angiogenesis and inflammatory cell recruitment. To test the combined inhibition of RAGE in both tumor cell-intrinsic and non-tumor cells of the microenvironment, we performed in vivo treatment of xenografted tumors with FPS-ZM1 (1 mg/kg, two times per week). Compared with vehicle, FPS-ZM1 inhibited primary tumor growth, inhibited tumor angiogenesis and inflammatory cell recruitment and, most importantly, prevented metastasis to the lung and liver. These data demonstrate that RAGE drives tumor progression and metastasis through distinct tumor cell-intrinsic and -extrinsic mechanisms, and may represent a novel and therapeutically viable approach for treating metastatic cancers.
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