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ONCOTARGET
卷 7, 期 22, 页码 33081-33095出版社
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.8859
关键词
breast cancer; Her2/Neu; hypoxia; DTC; tumorigenesis
资金
- Italian Association for Cancer Research [AIRC IG14295, IG14032]
- MIUR
- PRIN
- Progetto di Ateneo UniPD
- AIRC
Metastasis is the final stage of cancer progression. Some evidence indicates that tumor cell dissemination occurs early in the natural history of cancer progression. Disseminated tumor cells (DTC) have been described in the bone marrow (BM) of cancer patients as well as in experimental models, where they correlate with later development of metastasis. However, little is known about the tumorigenic features of DTC obtained at different time points along tumor progression. Here, we found that early DTC isolated from BM of 15-17 week-old Her2/neu transgenic (BALB-neuT) mice were not tumorigenic in immunodeficient mice. In contrast, DTC-derived tumors were easily detectable when late DTC obtained from 19-22 week-old BALB-neuT mice were injected. Angiogenesis, which contributes to regulate tumor dormancy, appeared dispensable to reactivate late DTC, although it accelerated growth of secondary DTC tumors. Compared with parental mammary tumors, gene expression profiling disclosed a distinctive transcriptional signature of late DTC tumors which was enriched for hypoxia-related transcripts and was maintained in ex-vivo cell culture. Altogether, these findings highlight a different tumorigenic potential of early and late DTC in the BALB-neuT model and describe a HIF-1 alpha-related transcriptional signature in DTC tumors, which may render DTC angiogenesis-competent, when placed in a favourable environment.
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