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CXCR4-SDF-1 interaction potentially mediates trafficking of circulating tumor cells in primary breast cancer

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Title
CXCR4-SDF-1 interaction potentially mediates trafficking of circulating tumor cells in primary breast cancer
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BMC Cancer, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12885-016-2143-2
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M. Mego, D. Cholujova, G. Minarik, T. Sedlackova, P. Gronesova, M. Karaba, J. Benca, S. Cingelova, Z. Cierna, D. Manasova, D. Pindak, J. Sufliarsky, M. Cristofanilli, J. M. Reuben, J. Mardiak

Abstract

Cytokines are involved in cancer invasion and metastasis. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) play key role in tumor dissemination and are an independent survival predictor in breast cancer patients. The aim of this study was to assess correlation between CTCs and plasma cytokines in primary breast cancer (PBC) patients. This study included 147 chemotherapy naïve PBC patients. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were depleted of hematopoetic cells using RossetteSep™ negative selection kit. RNA extracted from CD45-depleted PBMC was interrogated for expression of EMT (Twist1, Snail1, Slug, Zeb1) and epithelial (Ck19) gene transcripts by qRT-PCR. The concentrations of 51 plasma cytokines were measured using multiplex bead arrays. CTCs were detected in 25.2 % patients. CTCs exhibiting only epithelial markers (CTC_EP) and only EMT markers (CTC_EMT) were present evenly in 11.6 % patients, while CTCs co-expressing both markers were detected in 2.0 % patients. Patients with presence of CTC_EP in peripheral blood had significantly elevated levels of plasma IFN-α2, IL-3, MCP-3, β-NGF, SCF, SCGF-β, TNF-β and SDF-1 compared to patients without CTC_EP. CTC_EP exhibited overexpression of SDF-1 receptor and CXCR4, but not other corresponding cytokine receptor, and in multivariate analysis SDF-1 was independently associated with CTC_EP. There was an inverse correlation between CTC_EMT and plasma cytokines CTACK, β-NGF and TRAIL, while presence of either subtype of CTCs was associated with increased level of TGF-β2. Using cytokine profiling, we identified cytokines associated with CTCs subpopulations in peripheral blood of PBC. Our data suggest that CXCR4-SDF-1 axis is involved in mobilization and trafficking of epithelial CTCs.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 52 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 17 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 3 6%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 21 40%
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#17,789,675
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