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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 69, Issue 5, Pages 1733-1738Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-3766
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- NIH [CA103618, CA108610, CA58187]
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Cancer progression and metastasis involves interactions between tumor cells and the tumor microenvironment (TME). We reported that mice deficient for cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2)-KO) are protected against the development of lung tumors. The goal of this study was to examine the role of cPLA(2) in the TME. Mouse lung cancer cells (CMT167 and Lewis lung carcinoma cells) injected directly into lungs of syngeneic, mice formed a primary tumor, and then metastasized to other lobes of the lung and to the mediastinal lymph nodes. Identical cells injected into cPLA2-KO mice showed a dramatic decrease in the numbers of secondary metastatic tumors. This was associated with decreased macrophage staining surrounding the tumor. Wild-type mice transplanted with cPLA2-KO bone marrow had a marked survival advantage after inoculation with tumor cells compared with mice receiving wild-type (WT) bone marrow. In vitro, coculturing CMT167 cells with bone marrow-derived macrophages from WT mice increased production of interieukin 6 (IL-6) by cancer cells. This increase was blocked in cocultures using cPLA2-KO macrophages. Correspondingly, IL-6 staining was decreased in tumors grown in cPLA2-KO mice. These data suggest that stromal cPLA2 plays a critical role in tumor progression by altering tumor-macrophage interactions and cytokine production. [Cancer Res 2009;69(5):1733-8]
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