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CANCER RESEARCH
Volume 71, Issue 3, Pages 976-987Publisher
AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-3396
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- Department of Veterans Affairs through VA
- NIH [CA95004, CA114301, CA1179151, CA114197, CA107193]
- Department of Defense [W81XWH-10-1-0256]
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Biostatistics Shared Resource NCI [P30 CA68485]
- NSF [CBET0643583]
- NCI [T32 CA09592-21, T32 CA09592-22]
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
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It is well known that tumor-derived proangiogenic factors induce neovascularization to facilitate tumor growth and malignant progression. However, the concept of angiocrine signaling, in which signals produced by endothelial cells elicit tumor cell responses distinct from vessel function, has been proposed, yet remains underinvestigated. Here, we report that angiocrine factors secreted from endothelium regulate tumor growth and motility. We found that Slit2, which is negatively regulated by endothelial EphA2 receptor, is one such tumor suppressive angiocrine factor. Slit2 activity is elevated in EphA2-deficient endothelium. Blocking Slit activity restored angiocrine-induced tumor growth/motility, whereas elevated Slit2 impaired growth/motility. To translate our findings to human cancer, we analyzed EphA2 and Slit2 expression in human cancer. EphA2 expression inversely correlated with Slit2 in the vasculature of invasive human ductal carcinoma samples. Moreover, analysis of large breast tumor data sets revealed that Slit2 correlated positively with overall and recurrence-free survival, providing clinical validation for the tumor suppressor function for Slit2 in human breast cancer. Together, these data support a novel, clinically relevant mechanism through which EphA2 represses Slit2 expression in endothelium to facilitate angiocrine-mediated tumor growth and motility by blocking a tumor suppressive signal. Cancer Res; 71(3); 976-87. (C)2010 AACR.
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