Cao Yihai, Cao Renhai, Hedlund Eva-Maria
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, 171 77, Stockholm, Sweden.
J Mol Med (Berl). 2008 Jul;86(7):785-9. doi: 10.1007/s00109-008-0337-z. Epub 2008 Apr 8.
In a fast-growing malignant tissue, tumor blood vessels are exposed to multiple growth factors and cytokines. Although the role of individual factors and their signaling pathways in regulation of tumor neovascularization is relatively well-studied, little is known about complex interactions between these factors and their cooperative effects in promoting tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. Our recent studies show that quiescent vascular endothelial cells usually remaining silence to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF)-BB stimulation acquire their hyperresponsiveness after stimulation with fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-2, which transcriptionally switches on PDGF receptor expression in the activated endothelial cells. Interestingly, PDGF-BB also transduces positive feedback signals to the FGF-2 signaling system by amplifying its receptor expression in vascular mural cells. These uncoordinated reciprocal interactions in the tumor environment lead to the formation of disorganized and primitive vasculatures that facilitate tumor growth and metastasis in mice. These findings provide an example of complex interaction between tumor angiogenic factors. Thus, therapeutic development of antiangiogenic agents for the treatment of cancer should be aimed to block multiple angiogenic signaling pathways and their interactive loops.
在快速生长的恶性组织中,肿瘤血管会接触到多种生长因子和细胞因子。尽管单个因子及其信号通路在肿瘤新生血管形成调控中的作用已得到较为充分的研究,但对于这些因子之间的复杂相互作用及其在促进肿瘤血管生成和转移中的协同效应却知之甚少。我们最近的研究表明,通常对血小板衍生生长因子(PDGF)-BB刺激保持沉默的静止血管内皮细胞,在用成纤维细胞生长因子(FGF)-2刺激后会获得高反应性,FGF-2能在活化的内皮细胞中转录开启PDGF受体的表达。有趣的是,PDGF-BB还通过放大其在血管壁细胞中的受体表达,将正反馈信号传导至FGF-2信号系统。肿瘤环境中这些不协调的相互作用导致形成无序和原始的脉管系统,促进小鼠肿瘤的生长和转移。这些发现提供了一个肿瘤血管生成因子之间复杂相互作用的例子。因此,用于癌症治疗的抗血管生成药物的研发应旨在阻断多种血管生成信号通路及其交互循环。