Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Present address: Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.
J Vet Med Sci. 2022 May 25;84(5):712-719. doi: 10.1292/jvms.21-0506. Epub 2022 Apr 6.
Interactions between tumor and immune cells within the tumor microenvironment play an important role in tumor progression, and small extracellular vesicles (EVs) derived from these tumor cells have been shown to exert immunomodulatory effects on various immune cells, including macrophages and lymphocytes. Although the immunomodulatory effects of small EVs derived from human cancer cells have been intensively investigated, few studies have investigated the effects of lymphoma-derived small EVs on macrophages in both human and veterinary medicine. Here, we evaluated the effects of canine lymphoma-derived small EVs on canine primary monocytes, which are the major source of macrophages in neoplastic tissues. Comprehensive gene expression analysis of these treated monocytes revealed their distinct activation via the Toll-like receptor (TLR) and NF-κβ signaling pathways. In addition, treatment with lymphoma small EVs increased the secretion of MCP-1, which induces the infiltration and migration of monocytes and lymphocytes in neoplastic and cancer tissues. The results of this study indicate that canine lymphoma small EVs activate monocytes, possibly through the activation of TLR and NF-κβ signaling pathways, and induce monocytes to secrete of MCP-1, which might contribute to immune cell infiltration within the tumor microenvironment.
肿瘤微环境中肿瘤细胞与免疫细胞之间的相互作用在肿瘤进展中发挥着重要作用,源自这些肿瘤细胞的小细胞外囊泡(EVs)已被证明对各种免疫细胞(包括巨噬细胞和淋巴细胞)具有免疫调节作用。尽管已经深入研究了源自人类癌细胞的小 EVs 的免疫调节作用,但很少有研究调查淋巴瘤衍生的小 EVs 对人和兽医医学中巨噬细胞的影响。在这里,我们评估了犬淋巴瘤衍生的小 EVs 对犬原代单核细胞的影响,单核细胞是肿瘤组织中巨噬细胞的主要来源。对这些经处理的单核细胞进行的综合基因表达分析表明,它们通过 Toll 样受体(TLR)和 NF-κβ信号通路被明显激活。此外,用淋巴瘤小 EVs 处理会增加 MCP-1 的分泌,MCP-1 诱导单核细胞和淋巴细胞在肿瘤和癌组织中的浸润和迁移。这项研究的结果表明,犬淋巴瘤小 EVs 通过激活 TLR 和 NF-κβ信号通路激活单核细胞,并诱导单核细胞分泌 MCP-1,这可能有助于肿瘤微环境中免疫细胞的浸润。