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
中文摘要
肿瘤休眠是有效治疗的障碍。肿瘤休眠被认为是由
三个关键因素:细胞休眠,肿瘤细胞保持静止,缓慢的循环状态,血管生成
休眠,其中由于缺乏细胞凋亡,总体微转移的生长受到细胞凋亡的控制。
血管化和免疫系统介导的休眠,其中免疫系统继续编辑肿瘤
人口,保持平衡。 这些休眠亚种群的平衡得以维持,
微环境条件有利于它们的生长。 到目前为止,还不清楚这些确切的微生物群
环境条件是。 了解为什么肿瘤细胞离开这种休眠状态并变得具有攻击性
是癌症生物学中尚未满足的关键需求。关于肿瘤休眠的一个不争的事实是,
肿瘤处于休眠状态,在原发性肿瘤的诊断和切除之间发生显著的时间流逝,
和转移复发。 在这段时间里,生物体会老化,而老化是一个很差的预后指标
包括黑色素瘤在内的多种肿瘤类型的因子。 我们假设衰老过程中的变化
微环境可以有助于从休眠中出现。 我们的长期目标是了解
老化的微环境有助于从休眠中出现。
我们的数据暗示黑色素瘤休眠中的Wnt信号通路。 我们已经鉴定出Wnt 5A和sFRP 2
(分泌型卷曲相关蛋白2)作为两种Wnt途径调节剂,其水平和活性我们假设
在肿瘤休眠期的出现中发挥作用。 我们已经证明衰老会加速黑色素瘤
转移,部分由Wnt 5A和sFRP 2介导,其在衰老过程中增加。 我们的数据表明
sFRP 2增强血管生成,潜在地调节血管生成休眠。 sFRP 2-β介导的血管生成
已经证明需要内皮细胞表达Wnt 5A,我们将在肿瘤背景下测试这一点。
休眠 免疫介导的休眠部分依赖于髓源性抑制细胞的活性
(MDSC),以及它们调节CD 8+细胞的能力。 我们的数据显示,MDSC在老年肿瘤中增加,
这表明肿瘤微环境中的MDSC开始表达它们自己的Wnt 5A。
使用我们创建的新型动物模型,我们将检验非经典Wnt信号转导可以
通过对血管生成和MDSC的影响,调节免疫调节介导的微转移休眠。
英文摘要
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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