title: Tumor-associated macrophages and stromal TNF-α regulate collagen structure in a breast tumor model as visualized by second harmonic generation.
abstract: Collagen fibers can be imaged with second harmonic generation (SHG) and are associated with efficient tumor cell locomotion. Preferential locomotion along these fibers correlates with a more aggressively metastatic phenotype, and changes in SHG emission properties accompany changes in metastatic outcome. We therefore attempted to elucidate the cellular and molecular machinery that influences SHG in order to understand how the microstructure of tumor collagen fibers is regulated. By quantifying SHG and immunofluorescence (IF) from tumors grown in mice with and without stromal tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and in the presence or absence of tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs), we determined that depletion of TAMs alters tumor collagen fibrillar microstructure as quantified by SHG and IF. Furthermore, we determined that abrogation of TNF-α expression by tumor stromal cells also alters fibrillar microstructure and that subsequent depletion of TAMs has no further effect. In each case, metastatic burden correlated with optical readouts of collagen microstructure. Our results implicate TAMs and stromal TNF-α as regulators of breast tumor collagen microstructure and suggest that this regulation plays a role in tumor metastasis. Furthermore, these results indicate that quantification of SHG represents a useful strategy for evaluating the cells and molecular pathways responsible for manipulating fibrillar collagen in breast tumor models.
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester, Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, 601 Elmwood Avenue Box CVRI, Rochester, New York 14642, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: Kelley S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Madden
authors.forename: Seth W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.forename: Martha L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Zettel
authors.forename: Edward B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D005260:Female; D024022:Fibrillar Collagens / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D008264:Macrophages / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D036641:Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton / Q000379:methods*; D057054:Molecular Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D017154:Stromal Cells / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D024022:Fibrillar Collagens; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
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