Abstract P6-01-20: Effects of local and radiation enhanced TGFβ on the invasive nature of inflammatory breast cancer cells

Autor: K van Golen, S Barkataki
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Cancer Research. 77:P6-01
ISSN: 1538-7445
0008-5472
DOI: 10.1158/1538-7445.sabcs16-p6-01-20
Popis: Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is the deadliest form of epithelial breast cancer, accounting for ~10% of breast cancer deaths in the United States. A hallmark of IBC is the formation intralymphatic emboli that are known to be chemotherapy and radiation resistant and contribute to rapid metastasis. This form of breast cancer progresses very quickly, expressing aggressive behavior. IBC and melanoma share a number of similarities in disease presentation and progression. Both spread via dermal lymphatics, form intralymphatic emboli and have a propensity to form cutaneous metastases. Melanoma can also present as “inflammatory melanoma”, which resembles IBC phenotypically. Thus, new leads for studying cutaneous metastasis can be gathered from the melanoma literature. Studies demonstrate a role for transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) in the etiology of melanoma cutaneous metastasis. TGFβ promotes tumor cell invasion and its expression can be induced in the stroma by radiation treatment. Recently, our lab has demonstrated low expression of TGFβ in IBC patients, which we believe promotes cohesive invasion of IBC cells. Stimulation of IBC cells with 2ng/ml of TGFβ causes altered tumor cell behavior such as stimulating single cell invasion. The invasion of KPL4, SUM149 and MDA-MB231 cell lines were significantly higher in TGFβ stimulated cells compared to non-stimulated cells. As in melanoma cells we hypothesize that radiation enhanced local TGFβ production in the stroma. We radiated normal human epidermal fibroblasts cells with 0gy, 0.5gy, 1.0gy, 2.5gy and 5.0gy intensity and observed that the invasion was significantly higher in 1.0gy, 2.5gy and 5.0gy. We have also looked at the levels of TGFβ-1 in different conditioned medium. ELISA results don't show significant level of increase in TGFβ-1. Since there are two more TGFβ receptors in the TGFβ pathway (TGFβ -2 TGFβ -3), next I will look at the level of TGFβ-2 and 3 on the different intensity of radiation-conditioned medium. Our prediction is that the increase in the invasion of IBC cells is because of TGFβ, which alters the cohesive nature of IBC cells, and enhance single cell invasion. Moreover, radiation increases TGFβ levels in the stroma, which is responsible for rapid metastasis of IBC cells to the skin. Citation Format: Barkataki S, van Golen K. Effects of local and radiation enhanced TGFβ on the invasive nature of inflammatory breast cancer cells [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium; 2016 Dec 6-10; San Antonio, TX. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(4 Suppl):Abstract nr P6-01-20.
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