Malaquin Nicolas, Tu Véronique, Rodier Francis
Centre de Recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM) and Institut du Cancer de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Département de Radiologie, Radio-Oncologie et Médecine Nucléaire, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Methods Mol Biol. 2019;1896:45-55. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8931-7_6.
Cellular senescence is linked to many normal biological processes, including tumor suppression, development, and wound healing, but it is also associated with age-related pathologies such as cancer progression. Numerous functions of senescent cells depend on their ability to secrete bioactive molecules, a characteristic termed the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Although the SASP is generally described as proinflammatory, its true microenvironmental impact and composition may vary according to cell types (i.e., fibroblasts/epithelial, normal/cancerous) and senescence-triggering stimuli (i.e., replicative senescence, DNA damage-induced senescence, oncogene-induced senescence). The SASP reinforces autocrine cell-autonomous functions such as the senescence-associated proliferation arrest, but also mediates potent paracrine, non-cell-autonomous effects. In a paracrine manner, senescent cells influence the remodeling of surrounding tissues and the biology of adjacent cells, including modulation of proliferation and migration/invasion, reinforcement/induction of peripheral senescence, and immune cell activity or recruitment. Overall, the complexity of the context-dependent SASP composition and varied microenvironmental impact demonstrate the importance of properly assessing SASP functions directly on target cells. In this chapter, we focus on experimental approaches to evaluate the impact of SASP on the proliferation and migration/invasion capacities of target cancer cells. These techniques, with combined supplemental notes, will facilitate the assessment of novel functions of senescent cells on their microenvironment, and can be easily adapted beyond the use of the presented SASP-cancer scenario.
细胞衰老与许多正常生物学过程相关,包括肿瘤抑制、发育和伤口愈合,但它也与癌症进展等与年龄相关的病理状况有关。衰老细胞的众多功能取决于它们分泌生物活性分子的能力,这一特征被称为衰老相关分泌表型(SASP)。尽管SASP通常被描述为促炎性的,但其真正的微环境影响和组成可能因细胞类型(即成纤维细胞/上皮细胞、正常/癌细胞)和衰老触发刺激(即复制性衰老、DNA损伤诱导的衰老、癌基因诱导的衰老)而异。SASP强化自分泌细胞自主功能,如衰老相关的增殖停滞,但也介导强大的旁分泌、非细胞自主效应。衰老细胞以旁分泌方式影响周围组织的重塑和相邻细胞的生物学特性,包括增殖和迁移/侵袭的调节、外周衰老的强化/诱导以及免疫细胞活性或募集。总体而言,依赖于环境的SASP组成的复杂性和不同的微环境影响证明了直接在靶细胞上正确评估SASP功能的重要性。在本章中,我们重点介绍评估SASP对靶癌细胞增殖和迁移/侵袭能力影响的实验方法。这些技术以及补充说明将有助于评估衰老细胞对其微环境的新功能,并且可以轻松地应用于本文所呈现的SASP-癌症场景之外的情况。
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