scholarly journals A Rapid and Accurate Bioluminescence-Based Migration Assay Permitting Analysis of Tumor Cell/Stromal Cell Interactions

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Jinsoo Yoon ◽  
Christopher R. Parish ◽  
Lucy A. Coupland

Bioluminescent tumor cell lines are used extensively in vivo to monitor tumor growth and metastasis but rarely used in vitro to follow tumor cell behavior. Tumor cell migration is frequently studied in vitro using transwell assays, however, current methods do not permit the co-incubation of tumor cells with different stromal cell types for analysis of the effects of intercellular cross-talk on tumor cell migration. We describe a novel migration assay using bioluminescent tumor cell lines that is rapid, accurate, and permits the study of the effects of tumor cell-stromal cell interactions on tumor cell migratory behavior.

2003 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Wolf ◽  
Irina Mazo ◽  
Harry Leung ◽  
Katharina Engelke ◽  
Ulrich H. von Andrian ◽  
...  

Invasive tumor dissemination in vitro and in vivo involves the proteolytic degradation of ECM barriers. This process, however, is only incompletely attenuated by protease inhibitor–based treatment, suggesting the existence of migratory compensation strategies. In three-dimensional collagen matrices, spindle-shaped proteolytically potent HT-1080 fibrosarcoma and MDA-MB-231 carcinoma cells exhibited a constitutive mesenchymal-type movement including the coclustering of β1 integrins and MT1–matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) at fiber bindings sites and the generation of tube-like proteolytic degradation tracks. Near-total inhibition of MMPs, serine proteases, cathepsins, and other proteases, however, induced a conversion toward spherical morphology at near undiminished migration rates. Sustained protease-independent migration resulted from a flexible amoeba-like shape change, i.e., propulsive squeezing through preexisting matrix gaps and formation of constriction rings in the absence of matrix degradation, concomitant loss of clustered β1 integrins and MT1-MMP from fiber binding sites, and a diffuse cortical distribution of the actin cytoskeleton. Acquisition of protease-independent amoeboid dissemination was confirmed for HT-1080 cells injected into the mouse dermis monitored by intravital multiphoton microscopy. In conclusion, the transition from proteolytic mesenchymal toward nonproteolytic amoeboid movement highlights a supramolecular plasticity mechanism in cell migration and further represents a putative escape mechanism in tumor cell dissemination after abrogation of pericellular proteolysis.


1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 891-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amato J. Giaccia ◽  
Elizabeth A. Auger ◽  
Albert Koong ◽  
David J. Terris ◽  
Andrew I. Minchinton ◽  
...  

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Jay Boniface ◽  
Vijay R. Baichwal ◽  
Daniel M. Cimbora ◽  
Lynn DeMie ◽  
Tracey C. Fleischer ◽  
...  

Oncology ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji Maeda ◽  
Tohru Hirai ◽  
Hideyuki Yamato ◽  
Noriko Kobori ◽  
Ken-ichi Matsunaga ◽  
...  

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 4492-4501 ◽  
Author(s):  
C D Woodworth ◽  
J W Kreider ◽  
L Mengel ◽  
T Miller ◽  
Y L Meng ◽  
...  

Five simian virus 40 (SV40)-hepatocyte cell lines were examined for tumorigenicity and the effect of in vitro passage on the expression of four liver-specific genes (albumin, transferrin, alpha 1-antitrypsin, and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase), two oncogenes (c-Ha-ras and c-raf), and two genes associated with hepatocarcinogenesis (alpha-fetoprotein and placental-type glutathione-S-transferase). At low passage (12 to 22), all five cell lines expressed the four liver-specific genes at levels similar to those in the liver and were not tumorigenic or were weakly tumorigenic. At high passage (33 to 61), the cell lines formed carcinomas, and four out of five cell lines produced primary tumors that metastasized. At least two cell lines produced well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinomas that expressed liver-specific RNAs. Levels of expression of liver-specific genes changed with time in culture. Some of the changes in liver-specific gene expression in the tumor tissue (such as for the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene) paralleled those that occurred with in vitro passage, while other changes (such as for the albumin gene) did not parallel those that occurred with in vitro passage. Correlations between enhanced expression of c-Ha-ras and tumorigenic potential and between the process of SV40 immortalization and induced expression of c-raf and glutathione-S-transferase-P were observed. Induction of alpha-fetoprotein was detected with in vitro and in vivo passage only in the CWSV14 cell line and was paralleled by diminished albumin expression. In conclusion, we developed a model system with five SV40-hepatocyte cell lines, tumors induced by them, and tumor cell lines to examine changes in gene expression that accompany the progression from a normal cell to a hepatocellular carcinoma. Because the SV40-hepatocyte cell lines and tumor cell lines remain highly differentiated and vary in the magnitude of expression of specific genes, they can be used to study the molecular mechanisms regulating gene expression, in particular those regulating specific genes associated with differentiation.


2014 ◽  
Vol 997 ◽  
pp. 225-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Ling Wu ◽  
Li Wen Shen ◽  
Yan Ping Ding ◽  
Yoshimasa Tanaka ◽  
Wen Zhang

Benzamide derivatives have been shown to have antitumor activity in various tumor cell lines in vitro as well as in vivo. In this study, we examined the anti-proliferative effect of four benzamide derivativeson Hela, H7402, and SK-RC-42 tumor cell lines in vitro by means of Real-Time cell assay (RTCA), and found that four benzamide derivatives suppressed proliferation of tumor cells in a time-and dose-dependent manner. The anti-proliferative activity of benzamide derivatives demonstrated that theycould be promising lead compounds for developing therapeutic agents for malignant tumors.


1979 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 657-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ada Sacchi ◽  
Anna Corsi ◽  
Marco Caputo ◽  
Gabriella Zupi

Two tumor cell lines adapted to grow in vitro were originated from an explant of lung metastases of Lewis lung carcinoma. These lines differ in their malignancy when reinoculated into syngeneic animals; nevertheless, they do not show any difference for their in vitro clonogenic ability. From these lines 2 in vivo sublines of 3LL carcinoma were developed. The TD 50 of the 2 in vivo sublines are different, and both the values obtained are lower than that of the original line. These results are interpreted as a selection of more malignant tumor cell lines.


2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 279-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Chen ◽  
J. A. Rodriguez ◽  
B. Barnett ◽  
N. Hashimoto ◽  
J. Tang ◽  
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