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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep42186
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- Project for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Evolution (P-CREATE) [16cm0106205h0001]
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [26640108, 15K18419]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K18419, 17H06327, 26640108, 17H06324] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The tumour microenvironment is critical for various characteristics of tumour malignancies. Platelets, as part of the tumour microenvironment, are associated with metastasis formation via increasing the rate of tumour embolus formation in microvasculature. However, the mechanisms underlying the ability of tumour cells to acquire invasiveness and extravasate into target organs at the site of embolization remain unclear. In this study, we reported that platelet aggregation-inducing factor podoplanin expressed on tumour cell surfaces were found to not only promote the formation of tumour-platelet aggregates via interaction with platelets, but also induced the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of tumour cells by enhancing transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) release from platelets. In vitro and in vivo analyses revealed that podoplanin-mediated EMT resulted in increased invasiveness and extravasation of tumour cells. Treatment of mice with a TGF-beta-neutralizing antibody statistically suppressed podoplanin-mediated distant metastasis in vivo, suggesting that podoplanin promoted haematogenous metastasis in part by releasing TGF-beta from platelets that was essential for EMT of tumour cells. Therefore, our findings suggested that blocking the TGF-beta signalling pathway might be a promising strategy for suppressing podoplanin-mediated haematogenous metastasis in vivo.
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