Journal
ONCOIMMUNOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/2162402X.2015.1122860
Keywords
Alarmin; BoxA; DAMP; damage-associated molecular pattern; GFP; green fluorescent protein; HMGB1; High Mobility Box 1; leukocytes; macrophages; MC-38; murine colon adenocarcinoma cell line; peritoneal carcinomatosis; ShRNA; short hairpin RNA; vascularization
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- Italian Association for Cancer Research (AIRC) [IG11761]
- Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MIUR)
- Ministry of Health
- Ricerca Finalizzata [RF-2011-02352291]
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The factors that determine whether disseminated transformed cells in vivo yield neoplastic lesions have only been partially identified. We established an ad hoc model of peritoneal carcinomatosis by injecting colon carcinoma cells in mice. Tumor cells recruit inflammatory leukocytes, mostly macrophages, and generate neoplastic peritoneal lesions. Phagocyte depletion via clodronate treatment reduces neoplastic growth. Colon carcinoma cells release a prototypic damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP)/alarmin, High Mobility Group Box1 (HMGB1), which attracts leukocytes. Exogenous HMGB1 accelerates leukocyte recruitment, macrophage infiltration, tumor growth and vascularization. Lentiviral-based HMGB1 knockdown or pharmacological interference with its extracellular impair macrophage recruitment and tumor growth. Our findings provide a preclinical proof of principle that strategies based on preventing HMGB1-driven recruitment of leukocytes could be used for treating peritoneal carcinomatosis.
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