赖氨酰氧化酶
生物
癌症研究
细胞外基质
转染
病理
体内
转移
肿瘤进展
癌细胞
癌症
纤维化
细胞培养
医学
细胞生物学
生物技术
遗传学
作者
Gal Akiri,Edmond Sabo,Hagit Dafni,Zehava Vadasz,Yelena Kartvelishvily,Noga Gan,Ofra Kessler,Tzafra Cohen,Murray B. Resnick,Michal Neeman,Gera Neufeld
出处
期刊:PubMed
日期:2003-04-01
卷期号:63 (7): 1657-66
被引量:70
摘要
The lysyl oxidase gene family members function as extracellular matrix modulating enzymes. We have found that another member of this family, lysyl oxidase related protein-1 (LOR-1), is highly expressed in metastatic breast cancer-derived cell lines but not in the nonmetastatic estrogen-dependent MCF-7 cells. Furthermore, LOR-1 expression in periductal tumor cells of breast carcinomas is significantly correlated with increased tumor malignancy. MCF-7 cells expressing recombinant LOR-1 formed estrogen-dependent tumors that developed much slower than tumors derived from empty vector-transfected MCF-7 cells. The cells of these LOR-1-expressing tumors were surrounded by a high concentration of dense collagen fibers, and the tumors contained many fibrotic foci. Induction of fibrosis in vivo by lysyl oxidase-like enzymes has never been observed before and suggests that LOR-1 may function as an autonomous inducer of fibrosis. The appearance of fibrotic foci in spontaneous breast cancer tumors is correlated with poor prognosis and metastasis, and we, therefore, examined the invasiveness of the LOR-1-expressing tumors. LOR-1-expressing MCF-7 cells invaded the pseudocapsules surrounding the tumors. In contrast, vector-transfected MCF-7 cells did not invade the pseudocapsules. This observation suggests that LOR-1 enhances the malignancy of the tumors. Furthermore, the LOR-1-expressing tumor cells invaded blood vessels, nerves, and muscles adjacent to the tumor, indicating that the LOR-1-expressing MCF-7 cells acquired metastatic properties. We conclude that LOR-1 promotes tumor fibrosis and tumor invasiveness simultaneously, which indicates that these two processes may be associated.
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