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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 98, Issue 4, Pages 1853-1858Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.98.4.1853
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA69306, CA67988] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL58925] Funding Source: Medline
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Metastasis is the primary cause of death in human breast cancer, Metastasis to bone, lungs, liver, and brain involves dissemination of breast cancer cells via the bloodstream and requires adhesion within the vasculature. Blood cell adhesion within the vasculature depends on integrins, a family of transmembrane adhesion receptors, and is regulated by integrin activation. Here we show that integrin alphav beta3 supports breast cancer cell attachment under blood flow conditions in an activation-dependent manner. Integrin alphav beta3 was found in two distinct functional states in human breast cancer cells, The activated, but not the nonactivated, state supported tumor cell arrest during blood flow through interaction with platelets. Importantly, activated alphav beta3 was expressed by freshly isolated metastatic human breast cancer cells and variants of the MDA-MB 435 human breast cancer cell line, derived from mammary fat pad tumors or distant metastases in severe combined immunodeficient mice. Expression of constitutively activated mutant alphav beta3(D723R), but not alphav beta3(WT), in MDA-MB 435 cells strongly promoted metastasis in the mouse model. Thus breast cancer cells can exhibit a platelet-interactive and metastatic phenotype that is controlled by the activation of integrin alphav beta3. Consequently, alterations within tumors that lead to the aberrant control of integrin activation are expected to adversely affect the course of human breast cancer.
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