Zhang Leyi, Pan Jun, Wang Meijun, Yang Jini, Zhu Sangsang, Li Lili, Hu Xiaoxiao, Wang Zhen, Pang Liwei, Li Peng, Jia Fang, Ren Guohong, Zhang Yi, Xu Danying, Qiu Fuming, Huang Jian
Department of Breast Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310009, China.
Key Laboratory of Tumor Microenvironment and Immune Therapy of Zhejiang Province, Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310009, China.
Adv Sci (Weinh). 2025 Jan;12(4):e2310266. doi: 10.1002/advs.202310266. Epub 2024 Dec 4.
Chronic stress can significantly promote breast cancer progression. When exposed to chronic stress, exosomes released from neural and neuroendocrine cells in the central nervous system are enhanced and modified. However, whether tumor-derived exosomes (TDEs) are influenced by chronic stress and participate in chronic stress-mediated distant metastasis remains unclear. Here, it is shown that chronic stress remarkably facilitates the secretion of TDEs and modifies the contents of exosomes by activating the adrenergic β receptor in 4T1 tumor-bearing mice. Exosomes injection and blockade experiments indicate that exosomes play a crucial role in chronic stress-mediated lung metastasis of breast cancer. Chronic stress-induced TDEs are internalized by pulmonary neutrophils and strengthen neutrophil recruitment via the CXCL2 autocrine. In addition, the level of SP1 in TDEs increases, which favors the secretion of IL-1β by neutrophils through the activation of the TLR4-NFκβ pathway, ultimately aggravating lung metastasis of breast cancer. Collectively, this study provides a novel mechanism by which neutrophils within a pre-metastatic niche acquire their inflamed phenotype and establishes an important link among neuroendocrine changes, exosomes, immunity, and metastasis.
慢性应激可显著促进乳腺癌进展。当暴露于慢性应激时,中枢神经系统中神经和神经内分泌细胞释放的外泌体数量增加且发生改变。然而,肿瘤来源的外泌体(TDEs)是否受慢性应激影响并参与慢性应激介导的远处转移尚不清楚。在此研究中发现,慢性应激通过激活4T1荷瘤小鼠的肾上腺素能β受体,显著促进TDEs的分泌并改变外泌体的内容物。外泌体注射和阻断实验表明,外泌体在慢性应激介导的乳腺癌肺转移中起关键作用。慢性应激诱导的TDEs被肺中性粒细胞内化,并通过CXCL2自分泌增强中性粒细胞募集。此外,TDEs中SP1水平升高,通过激活TLR4-NFκβ途径促进中性粒细胞分泌IL-1β,最终加重乳腺癌肺转移。总之,本研究提供了一种新机制,即转移前生态位内的中性粒细胞获得炎症表型,并在神经内分泌变化、外泌体、免疫和转移之间建立了重要联系。
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