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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 66, Issue 3, Pages 1526-1535Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-3071
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- NCI NIH HHS [R01 CA064786, R01 CA064786-09, P50 CA058207, U54 CA112970, P50 CA 112970-01, R37 CA064786, CA 64786-09, P50 CA 58207-08, R01 CA124891, U54 CA112970-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Current therapeutic approaches to cancer are designed to target molecules that contribute to malignant behavior but leave normal tissues intact. 01 integrin is a candidate target well known for mediating cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions that influence diverse cellular functions; its aberrant expression has been implicated in breast cancer progression and resistance to cytotoxic therapy. The addition of beta(1) integrin inhibitory agents to breast cancer cells at a single-cell stage in a laminin-rich ECM (three-dimensional 1rECM) culture was shown to down-modulate beta(1), integrin signaling, resulting in malignant reversion. To investigate beta(1) integrin as a therapeutic target, we modified the three-dimensional IrECM protocol to approximate the clinical situation: before treatment, we allowed nonmalignant cells to form organized acinar structures and malignant cells to form tumor-like colonies. We then tested the ability of beta(1) integrin inhibitory antibody, AII beta 2, to inhibit tumor cell growth in several breast cancer cell lines (T4-2, MDA-MB-231, BT474, SKBR3, and MCF-7) and one nonmalignant cell line (S-1). We show that % integrin inhibition resulted in a significant loss of cancer cells, associated with a decrease in proliferation and increase in apoptosis, and a global change in the composition of residual colonies. In contrast, nonmalignant cells that formed tissue-like structures remained resistant. Moreover, these cancer cell-specific antiproliferative and proapoptotic effects were confirmed in vivo with no discernible toxicity to animals. Our findings indicate that, integrin is a promising therapeutic target, and that the three-dimensional IrECM culture assay can be used to effectively distinguish malignant and normal tissue response to therapy.
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