CCL2/CCR2通路介导髓系抑制细胞向癌症部位募集。
CCL2/CCR2 pathway mediates recruitment of myeloid suppressor cells to cancers.
作者信息
Huang Bo, Lei Zhang, Zhao Jie, Gong Wei, Liu Jinwen, Chen Zhenyong, Liu Yi, Li Dong, Yuan Ye, Zhang Gui-Mei, Feng Zuo-Hua
机构信息
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, People's Republic of China.
出版信息
Cancer Lett. 2007 Jul 8;252(1):86-92. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2006.12.012. Epub 2007 Jan 25.
In addition to direct effect on tumor cells, the tumor-promoting activity of CCL2 has been ascribed to its role in chemoattracting tumor-associated macrophages. However it is unclear whether CCL2 also attracts other immune regulatory cells during tumor development. In this study, we confirmed the ubiquitous expression of CCR2 in myeloid suppressor cells (MSCs), a main inducer for tumor immune evasion, and identified that cancer patient-derived CCL2 mediated the migration of MSCs to tumors in vitro, which could be interdicted by antibodies neutralizing CCL2 or blocking CCR2. In mouse tumor model, the adoptively transferred CCR2(-/-) MSCs could not migrate to either tumor or spleen as efficiently as WT MSCs. The absence of CCL2/CCR2 signaling hindered both MSC migration and MSC-promoted tumor growth. Our data provide evidence that CCL2/CCR2 pathway plays a pivotal role in MSC migration, which is a novel mechanism through which CCL2 promotes tumor growth.
除了对肿瘤细胞的直接作用外,CCL2的促肿瘤活性还归因于其在趋化肿瘤相关巨噬细胞中的作用。然而,目前尚不清楚CCL2在肿瘤发生过程中是否也吸引其他免疫调节细胞。在本研究中,我们证实了趋化因子受体2(CCR2)在髓系抑制细胞(MSCs)中普遍表达,MSCs是肿瘤免疫逃逸的主要诱导因子,并且发现癌症患者来源的CCL2在体外介导了MSCs向肿瘤的迁移,这一过程可被中和CCL2或阻断CCR2的抗体所阻断。在小鼠肿瘤模型中,过继转移的CCR2基因敲除(-/-)MSCs向肿瘤或脾脏的迁移效率不如野生型(WT)MSCs。CCL2/CCR2信号的缺失阻碍了MSCs的迁移以及MSCs促进的肿瘤生长。我们的数据提供了证据,表明CCL2/CCR2通路在MSCs迁移中起关键作用,这是CCL2促进肿瘤生长的一种新机制。