Effect of the aged microenvironment on tumor dormancy
Effect of the aged microenvironment on tumor dormancy
批准号:
9324629
负责人:
Ashani T Weeraratna
金额:
$43.46万
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依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
财政年份:
2017
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2017-03-02 至 2022-02-28
关键词:
AddressAffectAgeAggressive behaviorAgingAnimal ModelAnimalsApoptosisBlood VesselsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCancer BiologyCancer PatientCellsCessation of lifeClinicalClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsDataDiagnosisDiseaseDisease remissionElementsEndothelial CellsEquilibriumExcisionGeneticGoalsGrowthImmuneImmune systemImplantIn VitroIndividualIodineLeadLesionLungMalignant NeoplasmsMediatingMelanoma CellMicrometastasisModelingMusMyelogenousNatureNeoplasm MetastasisOrganismPathway interactionsPatientsPharmacologyPlayPopulationPrimary NeoplasmProcessPrognostic FactorPrognostic MarkerProteinsRecurrenceRoleSamplingSignal TransductionSkinSuppressor-Effector T-LymphocytesTestingTherapeuticTimeVascularizationVisceralWNT Signaling PathwayWild Type MouseWnt proteinsage effectage relatedagedangiogenesisdesigneffective therapyexperimental studyin vivomelanomamigrationmouse modelneoplastic cellnovelnovel markerolder patientoverexpressionprogression markertumortumor microenvironment
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Tumor dormancy presents a barrier to effective therapy. Tumor dormancy is thought to be comprised of
three key elements: cellular dormancy, where tumor cells maintain a quiescent, slow-cycling state, angiogenic
dormancy, where the growth of the overall micro-metastasis is kept in check by apoptosis due to lack of
vascularization, and immune-mediated dormancy, where the immune system continues to edit the tumor
population, keeping it in equilibrium. The equilibrium of these dormant subpopulations is maintained until
microenvironmental conditions favor their outgrowth. To date, it is unclear what those exact micro-
environmental conditions are. Understanding why tumor cells leave this dormant state and become aggressive
is a critical unmet need in cancer biology. One indisputable fact about tumor dormancy is that in cases where a
tumor is dormant, a significant lapse of time occurs between the diagnosis and removal of a primary tumor,
and the recurrence of metastasis. During this lapse of time, an organism ages, and age is a poor prognostic
factor for multiple tumor types, including melanoma. We hypothesize that changes in the aging
microenvironment can contribute to an emergence from dormancy. Our long-term goal is to understand how
the aged microenvironment contributes to an emergence from dormancy.
Our data implicate the Wnt signaling pathway in melanoma dormancy. We have identified Wnt5A and sFRP2
(secreted frizzled related protein 2), as two Wnt pathway modulators whose level and activity we hypothesize
play roles in the emergence from tumor dormancy. We have shown that aging accelerates melanoma
metastasis, partly mediated by Wnt5A and sFRP2, which are increased during aging. Our data indicate that
sFRP2 enhances angiogenesis, potentially regulating angiogenic dormancy. sFRP2-mediated angiogenesis
has been shown to require endothelial cell expression of Wnt5A and we will test this in the context of tumor
dormancy. Immune-mediated dormancy relies in part on the activity of myeloid derived suppressor cells
(MDSCs), and their ability to regulate CD8+ cells. Our data show that MDSCs are increased in the aged tumor
microenvironment, and further, that MDSCs in the tumor microenvironment begin to express their own Wnt5A.
Using novel animal models we have created, we will test the hypothesis that non-canonical Wnt signaling can
regulate immune-mediated dormancy of micrometastases, via effects on angiogenesis and MDSCs.
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