Systemic regulation of metastasis

项目概要 癌症是一种全身性疾病。其生长和恶性进展不仅依赖于内在的异常 肿瘤细胞的遗传和表观遗传组成，也对肿瘤诱发的全身因素产生影响 局部和远处微环境中的细胞。重要的是，肿瘤之间存在动态串扰 教育组织和器官以及肿瘤本身，特别是在转移过程中。由于肿瘤 重塑其局部微环境，诱导其支持癌症生长，发挥全身作用，征服 免疫系统和远处器官，不仅导致转移，而且导致血管变化（血管 渗漏、凝血）、肌肉和代谢变化（恶病质）、肝和肺衰竭、骨骼变化 密度（骨质疏松症或石骨症）和神经病，但也许最重要的是炎症和免疫 镇压。肿瘤发挥其全身作用，诱导宿主的各个器官系统支持 通过肿瘤分泌的因子（例如可溶性因子（细胞因子和趋化因子））和 外泌体（和外泌体，我们最近发现的新型颗粒）携带复杂货物的纳米囊泡， 包括蛋白质、代谢物、DNA 以及编码和非编码 RNA。发展有效的 抗转移疗法基于我们对这些迭代和复杂相互作用的理解 肿瘤与其宿主之间的通讯，并设计出中断这种通讯的方法。我们开发了小说 分析肿瘤来源的外泌体和外泌体的异质性和功能作用的方法 转移及其引起全身变化的能力。最终，我们建议探索 抑制造血细胞中特定外泌体货物分子或其靶标的可能性 逆转免疫抑制、转移前生态位形成和癌症的全身效应。总而言之， 我们将重点研究外泌体以及外泌体调节免疫系统的机制 癌症模型中转移前和转移生态位的动员、代谢变化和可塑性 患者。

Project Summary Cancer is a systemic disease. Its growth and malignant progression relies not only on the intrinsic aberrant genetic and epigenetic makeup of tumor cells, but also on the tumor-induced systemic factors which impact cells in local and distant microenvironments. Importantly, there is dynamic crosstalk between the tumor- educated tissues and organs and the tumor itself, especially during metastatic progression. As the tumor reshapes its local microenvironment, coaxing it to support cancer growth, it exerts systemic effects, conquering the immune system and distant organs, leading not only to metastasis but also to vascular changes (vascular leakiness, coagulation), muscular and metabolic changes (cachexia), liver and lung failure, changes in bone density (osteoporosis or osteopetrosis), and neuropathies, but maybe above all, inflammation and immune suppression. The tumor exerts its systemic effects, coaxing the various organ systems of the host to support cancer growth through tumor-secreted factors, such as soluble factors (cytokines and chemokines) and exosomes (and exomeres, the novel particles we recently discovered) nanovesicles that carry complex cargo, including proteins, metabolites, DNA and coding as well as non-coding RNAs. The development of effective anti-metastatic therapies is predicated on our understanding of these iterative and complex interactions between the tumor and its host, and on devising ways to interrupt this communication. We developed novel approaches to analyze the heterogeneity and functional roles of tumor-derived exosomes and exomeres in metastasis as well as their capacity to induce systemic changes. Ultimately, we propose to explore the possibility that inhibition of specific exosome cargo molecules or their targets in hematopoietic cells could reverse immunosuppression, pre-metastatic niche formation and the systemic effects of cancer. In summary, we will focus on studying the mechanisms through which exosomes and exosomes regulate immune system mobilization, metabolic changes and plasticity of pre-metastatic and metastatic niches in cancer models and patients.