Soluble factors from the target organ enhance tumor cell angiogenesis: role of laminin SIKVAV sequence.
The ability of tumor cells to respond to microenvironmental factors present in the target organ determines in part the successful development of a metastasis. In a previous work it was demonstrated that the conditioned medium (CM) from lungs of normal mice stimulates in vitro migration, proliferation and uPA activity of cells from a murine mammary adenocarcinoma moderately metastatic to lung. This CM also enhanced local and metastatic tumor growth. Here, we show that lung CM enhanced neovascularization when inoculated together with LM3 tumor cells into the skin of syngeneic mice. A similar tumor-induced angiogenesis response was obtained when lung CM was injected systemically. Western blot analysis of lung CM revealed the presence of some laminin fragments containing the sequence SIKVAV. To determine whether those molecules were responsible for the observed angiogenic effects, the CM was depleted of the peptides containing the SIKVAV sequence. We observed that the SIKVAV-depleted lung CM lost its ability to induce an enhancement of the tumor neovascular response. Our results suggest a role for the target organ in facilitating the neovascularization of tumor cells, probably through the participation of active peptides derived from the proteolytic degradation of the basement membrane component laminin.
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Area Investigacion, Instituto de Oncologia 'Angel H. Roffo', UBA, 1417 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Del Carmen C Vidal
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De Lorenzo
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D000818:Animals; D017077:Culture Media, Conditioned; D007797:Laminin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008168:Lung / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000494:pharmacology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
D017077:Culture Media, Conditioned; D007797:Laminin; D010446:Peptide Fragments