胰腺癌
分解代谢
胞饮病
细胞外
氨基酸
癌细胞
生物
白蛋白
癌症
生物化学
细胞生物学
新陈代谢
细胞
癌症研究
内吞作用
遗传学
作者
Shawn M. Davidson,Oliver Jonas,Mark A. Keibler,Han Wei Hou,Alba Luengo,Jared R. Mayers,Jeffrey Wyckoff,Amanda M. Del Rosario,Matthew A. Whitman,Christopher R. Chin,Kendall J. Condon,Alex Lammers,Katherine A. Kellersberger,Brian K Stall,Gregory Stephanopoulos,Dafna Bar–Sagi,Jongyoon Han,Joshua D. Rabinowitz,Michael J. Cima,Robert Langer,Matthew G Vander Heiden
出处
期刊:Nature Medicine
[Springer Nature]
日期:2016-12-26
卷期号:23 (2): 235-241
被引量:272
摘要
Mammalian tissues rely on a variety of nutrients to support their physiological functions. It is known that altered metabolism is involved in the pathogenesis of cancer, but which nutrients support the inappropriate growth of intact malignant tumors is incompletely understood. Amino acids are essential nutrients for many cancer cells that can be obtained through the scavenging and catabolism of extracellular protein via macropinocytosis. In particular, macropinocytosis can be a nutrient source for pancreatic cancer cells, but it is not fully understood how the tumor environment influences metabolic phenotypes and whether macropinocytosis supports the maintenance of amino acid levels within pancreatic tumors. Here we utilize miniaturized plasma exchange to deliver labeled albumin to tissues in live mice, and we demonstrate that breakdown of albumin contributes to the supply of free amino acids in pancreatic tumors. We also deliver albumin directly into tumors using an implantable microdevice, which was adapted and modified from ref. 9. Following implantation, we directly observe protein catabolism and macropinocytosis in situ by pancreatic cancer cells, but not by adjacent, non-cancerous pancreatic tissue. In addition, we find that intratumoral inhibition of macropinocytosis decreases amino acid levels. Taken together, these data suggest that pancreatic cancer cells consume extracellular protein, including albumin, and that this consumption serves as an important source of amino acids for pancreatic cancer cells in vivo.
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