The Key Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences &Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
Department of Breast Surgery, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Ji'nan 250012, China.
Nat Cell Biol. 2017 Oct;19(10):1274-1285. doi: 10.1038/ncb3613. Epub 2017 Sep 11.
Metastatic cancer is a systemic disease, and metastasis determinants might elicit completely different effects in various target organs. Here we show that tumour-secreted DKK1 is a serological marker of breast cancer metastasis organotropism and inhibits lung metastasis. DKK1 suppresses PTGS2-induced macrophage and neutrophil recruitment in lung metastases by antagonizing cancer cell non-canonical WNT/PCP-RAC1-JNK signalling. In the lungs, DKK1 also inhibits WNT/Ca-CaMKII-NF-κB signalling and suppresses LTBP1-mediated TGF-β secretion of cancer cells. In contrast, DKK1 promotes breast-to-bone metastasis by regulating canonical WNT signalling of osteoblasts. Importantly, targeting canonical WNT may not be beneficial to treatment of metastatic cancer, while combinatory therapy against JNK and TGF-β signalling effectively prevents metastasis to both the lungs and bone. Thus, DKK1 represents a class of Janus-faced molecules with dichotomous roles in organotropic metastasis, and our data provide a rationale for new anti-metastasis approaches.
转移性癌症是一种全身性疾病,转移决定因素可能在不同的靶器官中产生完全不同的影响。在这里,我们表明肿瘤分泌的 DKK1 是乳腺癌转移器官趋向性的血清标志物,并抑制肺转移。DKK1 通过拮抗癌细胞非经典 WNT/PCP-RAC1-JNK 信号通路抑制肺转移部位中 PTGS2 诱导的巨噬细胞和中性粒细胞募集。在肺部,DKK1 还抑制 WNT/Ca-CaMKII-NF-κB 信号通路并抑制 LTBP1 介导的癌细胞 TGF-β分泌。相比之下,DKK1 通过调节成骨细胞中的经典 WNT 信号通路促进乳腺癌向骨骼转移。重要的是,针对经典 WNT 信号通路可能不利于转移性癌症的治疗,而针对 JNK 和 TGF-β 信号通路的联合治疗可有效防止肺和骨骼转移。因此,DKK1 代表了一类具有两面性的分子,在器官趋向性转移中具有双重作用,我们的数据为新的抗转移方法提供了依据。
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