中性粒细胞护送循环瘤细胞,使细胞循环进展
Barbara Maria Szczerba1, Francesc Castro-Giner1,2, Marcus Vetter3,4
1Department of Biomedicine, Cancer Metastasis Lab, University of Basel and University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Nature
|February 8, 2019
概括
癌细胞与血液中的中性粒细胞结合,促进细胞循环的进展和转移. 针对这种相互作用可能提供新的乳腺癌治疗策略.
科学领域:
- 免疫学
- 癌症学
- 分子生物学
背景情况:
- 了解癌细胞和免疫细胞的相互作用对于开发新型癌症疗法至关重要.
- 研究主要集中在原发性瘤上, 免疫细胞在癌症扩散中的作用尚未得到充分研究.
- 循环瘤细胞 (CTCs) 是转移的前体,有时与循环中的白细胞 (WBCs) 一起发现,但它们的相互作用尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 描述与CTC相关的白细胞的身份和功能.
- 阐明控制CTC-WBC相互作用的分子特征.
- 研究这些相互作用在癌症转移中的作用.
主要方法:
- 从乳腺癌患者和小鼠模型中分离和表征单个CTC相关的白细胞和癌细胞.
- 单细胞RNA测序 (scRNA-seq) 的CTC-WBC集群.
- 与中性粒细胞相关的CTC和单独的CTC之间的转录组比较.
主要成果:
- 在大多数分析的病例中,CTC主要与中性粒细胞相关.
- 与单独的CTC相比,转录组分析显示了与细胞循环进展相关的差异表达基因.
- 特定的细胞-细胞结和细胞因子-受体对被确定为CTC中性粒细胞集群的关键媒介.
结论:
- 中性粒细胞与CTC之间的关联增强了血液中的细胞循环进展.
- 这种相互作用扩大了CTC的转移潜力.
- 针对CTC与中性粒细胞的相互作用是乳腺癌治疗的潜在治疗策略.
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