scholarly journals Cancer-associated fibroblasts enhance metastatic potential of lung cancer cells through IL-6/STAT3 signaling pathway

Oncotarget ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 76116-76128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Limin Wang ◽  
Limin Cao ◽  
Huimin Wang ◽  
Boning Liu ◽  
Qicheng Zhang ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsung-Teng Huang ◽  
Ying-Wei Lan ◽  
Chuan-Mu Chen ◽  
Yun-Fei Ko ◽  
David M. Ojcius ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 3311-3317 ◽  
Author(s):  
LICHUAN WU ◽  
LIANGXIA GUO ◽  
YUEHUI LIANG ◽  
XU LIU ◽  
LIHE JIANG ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  
pp. 807-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junqiang Fan ◽  
Guanxin Xu ◽  
Zhibo Chang ◽  
Ling Zhu ◽  
Jie Yao

Abstract It has been generally believed that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) have the ability to increase the process of tumor angiogenesis. However, the potential mechanisms by which cancer-derived exosomes in lung cancer (LC) remains to be investigated. LC-derived exosomes were administrated to NIH/3T3 cells. A variety of experiments were conducted to investigate the proangiogenic factors of CAFs, including Western blot, RT-PCR, colony formation assay, tube formation assay, Matrigel plug assay et al. In addition, the impact of JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway were also explored. The role of hsa-miR-210 was identified with microarray profiling and validated in vitro and in vivo assays. The target of miR-210 was screened by RNA pull down, RNA-sequencing and then verified. It was shown that LC-derived exosomes could induce cell reprogramming, thus promoting the fibroblasts transferring into CAFs. In addition, the exosomes with overexpressed miR-210 could increase the level of angiogenesis and vice versa, which suggested the miR-210 secreted by the LC-derived exosomes may initiate the CAF proangiogenic switch. According to our analysis, the miR-210 had the ability of elevating the expression of some proangiogenic factors such as MMP9, FGF2 and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) a (VEGFa) by activating the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway, ten-eleven translocation 2 (TET2) was identified as the target of miR-210 in CAFs which has been involved in proangiogenic switch. miR-210 was overexpressed in serum exosomes of untreated non-small cell LC (NSCLC) patients. We concluded that the promotion effect of exosomal miR-210 on proangiogenic switch of CAFs may be explained by the modulation of JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway and TET2 in recipient fibroblasts.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Du ◽  
Weiwei Chen ◽  
Lijuan Yang ◽  
Juanjuan Dai ◽  
Jiwei Guo ◽  
...  

Abstract Deregulated Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) pathway facilitates the initiation, progression, and metastasis of Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), confers drug resistance and renders a therapeutic interference option to lung cancer patients with poor prognosis. In this study, we screened and evaluated the specificity of a Chinese herb Scutellariabarbata D. Don extraction (SBE) in repressing SHH signaling pathway to block NSCLC progression. Our study confirmed that aberrant activation of the SHH signal pathway conferred more proliferative and invasive phenotypes to human lung cancer cells. This study revealed that SBE specifically repressed SHH signaling pathway to interfere the SHH-mediated NSCLC progression and metastasis via arresting cell cycle progression. We also found that SBE significantly sensitized lung cancer cells to chemotherapeutic agent DDP via repressing SHH components in vitro and in vivo. Mechanistic investigations indicated that SBE transcriptionally and specifically downregulated SMO and consequently attenuated the activities of GLI1 and its downstream targets in SHH signaling pathway, which interacted with cell cycle checkpoint enzymes to arrest cell cycle progression and lead to cellular growth inhibition and migration blockade. Collectively, our results suggest SBE as a novel drug candidate for NSCLC which specifically and sensitively targets SHH signaling pathway.


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