Journal
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PROBES
Volume 50, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2019.101498
Keywords
Monocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells; Pre-metastatic niche; Matrix metalloprotein 9; Tumor progression; Metastasis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81670095, 31870888, 31270916]
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In cancer patients, the prevalence of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) is correlated with the degree of malignancy. In the present study, we investigated the role of circulating M-MDSCs in premetastatic niche formation using a mouse syngeneic tumor model and found that there was an increased frequency of M-MDSCs in the peripheral blood of tumor-bearing mice. M-MDSCs tracking and lung tissue histological analyses revealed that the malignant conditions promote the residence of circulating M-MDSCs and increased tumor cell arrest in the lungs. We further found that MMP-9 expression was increased in the circulating M-MDSCs and the administration of an MMP-9 inhibitor suppressed M-MDSCs transplantation-induced tumor cell arrest in the lung. Therefore, our findings suggest that the expansion of circulating M-MDSCs during tumor progression contributes to premetastatic niche formation by increasing MMP-9 expression.
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