van Tienderen Gilles S, van Beek Marije E A, Schurink Ivo J, Rosmark Oskar, Roest Henk P, Tieleman Jantine, Demmers Jeroen, Muntz Iain, Conboy James, Westergren-Thorsson Gunilla, Koenderink Gijsje, van der Laan Luc Jw, Verstegen Monique M A
Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC Transplant Institute, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Lung Biology, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Front Oncol. 2023 Jan 18;12:1101901. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1101901. eCollection 2022.
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a type of liver cancer with an aggressive phenotype and dismal outcome in patients. The metastasis of CCA cancer cells to distant organs, commonly lung and lymph nodes, drastically reduces overall survival. However, mechanistic insight how CCA invades these metastatic sites is still lacking. This is partly because currently available models fail to mimic the complexity of tissue-specific environments for metastatic CCA. To create an model in which interactions between epithelial tumor cells and their surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM) can be studied in a metastatic setting, we combined patient-derived CCA organoids (CCAOs) (n=3) with decellularized human lung (n=3) and decellularized human lymph node (n=13). Decellularization resulted in removal of cells while preserving ECM structure and retaining important characteristics of the tissue origin. Proteomic analyses showed a tissue-specific ECM protein signature reflecting tissue functioning aspects. The macro and micro-scale mechanical properties, as determined by rheology and micro-indentation, revealed the local heterogeneity of the ECM. When growing CCAOs in decellularized lung and lymph nodes genes related to metastatic processes, including epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and cancer stem cell plasticity, were significantly influenced by the ECM in an organ-specific manner. Furthermore, CCAOs exhibit significant differences in migration and proliferation dynamics dependent on the original patient tumor and donor of the target organ. In conclusion, CCA metastatic outgrowth is dictated both by the tumor itself as well as by the ECM of the target organ. Convergence of CCAOs with the ECM of its metastatic organs provide a new platform for mechanistic study of cancer metastasis.
胆管癌(CCA)是一种肝癌,具有侵袭性表型,患者预后不佳。CCA癌细胞转移至远处器官,常见的是肺和淋巴结,这会大幅降低总体生存率。然而,目前仍缺乏关于CCA如何侵袭这些转移部位的机制性见解。部分原因是目前可用的模型无法模拟转移性CCA组织特异性环境的复杂性。为了创建一个能够在转移环境中研究上皮肿瘤细胞与其周围细胞外基质(ECM)之间相互作用的模型,我们将患者来源的CCA类器官(CCAOs)(n = 3)与脱细胞人肺(n = 3)和脱细胞人淋巴结(n = 13)相结合。脱细胞处理导致细胞被去除,同时保留了ECM结构并保留了组织来源的重要特征。蛋白质组学分析显示了反映组织功能方面的组织特异性ECM蛋白特征。通过流变学和微压痕测定的宏观和微观尺度力学性能揭示了ECM的局部异质性。当在脱细胞肺和淋巴结中培养CCAOs时,与转移过程相关的基因,包括上皮 - 间质转化和癌症干细胞可塑性,受到ECM以器官特异性方式的显著影响。此外,CCAOs在迁移和增殖动力学方面表现出显著差异,这取决于原始患者肿瘤和靶器官的供体。总之,CCA转移生长既受肿瘤本身影响,也受靶器官ECM的影响。CCAOs与转移器官的ECM融合为癌症转移的机制研究提供了一个新平台。
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