Department of Integrative Biosciences, University of Brain Education (UBE), Cheonan 31228, Korea.
Center for BioMicrosystems, Brain Science Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Korea.
Int J Mol Sci. 2020 Oct 31;21(21):8153. doi: 10.3390/ijms21218153.
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) in the cancer microenvironment play an essential role in metastasis. Differentiation of endothelial cells into CAFs is induced by cancer cell-derived exosomes secreted from cancer cells that transfer molecular signals to surrounding cells. Differentiated CAFs facilitate migration of cancer cells to different regions through promoting extracellular matrix (ECM) modifications. However, in vitro models in which endothelial cells exposed to cancer cell-derived exosomes secreted from various cancer cell types differentiate into CAFs or a microenvironmentally controlled model for investigating cancer cell invasion by CAFs have not yet been studied. In this study, we propose a three-dimensional in vitro cancer cell invasion model for real-time monitoring of the process of forming a cancer invasion site through CAFs induced by exosomes isolated from three types of cancer cell lines. The invasiveness of cancer cells with CAFs induced by cancer cell-derived exosomes (eCAFs) was significantly higher than that of CAFs induced by cancer cells (cCAFs) through physiological and genetic manner. In addition, different genetic tendencies of the invasion process were observed in the process of invading cancer cells according to CAFs. Our 3D microfluidic platform helps to identify specific interactions among multiple factors within the cancer microenvironment and provides a model for cancer drug development.
癌症相关成纤维细胞(CAFs)在癌症微环境中在转移中起着重要作用。内皮细胞分化为 CAFs 是由癌细胞分泌的源自癌细胞的外泌体诱导的,这些外泌体将分子信号传递给周围细胞。分化的 CAFs 通过促进细胞外基质(ECM)的修饰,促进癌细胞向不同区域的迁移。然而,尚未研究内皮细胞暴露于源自各种癌细胞类型的癌细胞衍生的外泌体分化为 CAFs 的体外模型或用于研究 CAFs 促进癌细胞侵袭的微环境控制模型。在这项研究中,我们提出了一种三维体外癌细胞侵袭模型,用于通过从三种癌细胞系分离的外泌体实时监测通过 CAFs 形成癌症侵袭部位的过程。通过源自癌细胞的外泌体(eCAFs)诱导的 CAFs 诱导的癌细胞的侵袭性明显高于通过生理和遗传方式诱导的 CAFs 诱导的癌细胞的侵袭性。此外,根据 CAFs,在侵袭癌细胞的过程中观察到了侵袭过程的不同遗传趋势。我们的 3D 微流控平台有助于识别癌症微环境中多个因素之间的特定相互作用,并为癌症药物开发提供了模型。
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