Department of Laboratory Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research, University of Gothenburg, 41390, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Wallenberg Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg, 41390, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sci Rep. 2021 Jun 25;11(1):13334. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92724-9.
Three-dimensional cell culture platforms based on decellularised patient-based microenvironments provide in vivo-like growth conditions allowing cancer cells to interact with intact structures and components of the surrounding tissue. A patient-derived scaffold (PDS) model was therefore evaluated as a testing platform for the endocrine therapies (Z)-4-Hydroxytamoxifen (4OHT) and fulvestrant as well as the CDK4/6-inhibitor palbociclib, monitoring the treatment responses in breast cancer cell lines MCF7 and T47D adapted to the patient-based microenvironments. MCF7 cells growing in PDSs showed increased resistance to 4OHT and fulvestrant treatment (100- and 20-fold) compared to 2D cultures. Quantitative PCR analyses of endocrine treated cancer cells in PDSs revealed upregulation of pluripotency markers further supported by increased self-renewal capacity in sphere formation assays. When comparing different 3D growth platforms including PDS, matrigel, gelatin sponges and 3D-printed hydrogels, 3D based cultures showed slightly varying responses to fulvestrant and palbociclib whereas PDS and matrigel cultures showed more similar gene expression profiles for 4OHT treatment compared to the other platforms. The results support that the PDS technique maximized to provide a multitude of smaller functional PDS replicates from each primary breast cancer, is an up-scalable patient-derived drug-testing platform available for gene expression profiling and downstream functional assays.
基于去细胞化患者微环境的三维细胞培养平台提供了类似于体内的生长条件,使癌细胞能够与周围组织的完整结构和成分相互作用。因此,评估了患者来源的支架(PDS)模型作为内分泌治疗(Z)-4-羟基他莫昔芬(4OHT)和氟维司群以及 CDK4/6 抑制剂 palbociclib 的测试平台,监测适应患者微环境的乳腺癌细胞系 MCF7 和 T47D 的治疗反应。与 2D 培养相比,在 PDS 中生长的 MCF7 细胞对 4OHT 和氟维司群治疗的耐药性增加了 100 倍和 20 倍。对 PDS 中接受内分泌治疗的癌细胞进行定量 PCR 分析显示,多能性标记物上调,球体形成试验进一步支持自我更新能力增强。当比较包括 PDS、matrigel、明胶海绵和 3D 打印水凝胶在内的不同 3D 生长平台时,基于 3D 的培养对 fulvestrant 和 palbociclib 的反应略有不同,而 PDS 和 matrigel 培养对 4OHT 治疗的基因表达谱更相似与其他平台相比。结果表明,PDS 技术最大限度地从每个原发性乳腺癌中提供了大量较小的功能性 PDS 复制品,是一种可扩展的患者来源的药物测试平台,可用于基因表达谱分析和下游功能测定。