Correlation between spontaneous metastatic potential and type I collagenolytic activity in a human pancreatic cancer cell line (SUIT-2) and sublines.
A human pancreatic cancer cell line (SUIT-2) and four sublines cloned in vitro (S2-007, S2-013, S2-020 and S2-028) were inoculated into nude mice for assessment of metastatic potentials. After 16 weeks of subcutaneous injection, the parent SUIT-2 line metastasized to the lungs and lymph nodes in three of six mice. S2-007 cells presented the highest metastatic potential in pulmonary (5/6) and lymph node (2/6) metastases among the four sublines. No metastasis was found in S2-028. The incidence of spontaneous pulmonary metastasis was correlated with that of pulmonary colonization after intravenous (i.v.) injection of cell clusters (r = 0.87, P = 0.056). Pulmonary colonization potential using single cells, however, did not always reflect a spontaneous metastatic ability. Type I collagenolytic activity in serum-free conditioned media of these cells was correlated effectively with the incidence of spontaneous pulmonary metastasis (r = 0.92, P = 0.026) and pulmonary colonization after i.v. injection of cell clusters (r = 0.95, P = 0.013). Thus, type I collagenolytic activity may possibly be essential to spontaneous cancer metastasis.
Taniguchi
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First Department of Surgery, Miyazaki Medical College, Japan.
Iwamura
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Katsuki
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D000818:Animals; D003094:Collagen / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D007279:Injections, Subcutaneous; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008819:Mice, Nude; D003012:Microbial Collagenase / Q000378:metabolism; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis / Q000473:pathology*; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
D003094:Collagen; D003012:Microbial Collagenase