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CXCL1 mediates obesity-associated adipose stromal cell trafficking and function in the tumour microenvironment.

ABSTRACT: White adipose tissue (WAT) overgrowth in obesity is linked with increased aggressiveness of certain cancers. Adipose stromal cells (ASCs) can become mobilized from WAT, recruited by tumours and promote cancer progression. Mechanisms underlying ASC trafficking are unclear. Here we demonstrate that chemokines CXCL1 and CXCL8 chemoattract ASC by signalling through their receptors, CXCR1 and CXCR2, in cell culture models. We further show that obese patients with prostate cancer have increased epithelial CXCL1 expression. Concomitantly, we observe that cells with ASC phenotype are mobilized and infiltrate tumours in obese patients. Using mouse models, we show that the CXCL1 chemokine gradient is required for the obesity-dependent tumour ASC recruitment, vascularization and tumour growth promotion. We demonstrate that ?SMA expression in ASCs is induced by chemokine signalling and mediates the stimulatory effects of ASCs on endothelial cells. Our data suggest that ASC recruitment to tumours, driven by CXCL1 and CXCL8, promotes prostate cancer progression.

SUBMITTER: Zhang T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4895055 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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CXCL1 mediates obesity-associated adipose stromal cell trafficking and function in the tumour microenvironment.

Zhang Tao T Tseng Chieh C Zhang Yan Y Sirin Olga O Corn Paul G PG Li-Ning-Tapia Elsa M EM Troncoso Patricia P Davis John J Pettaway Curtis C Ward John J Frazier Marsha L ML Logothetis Christopher C Kolonin Mikhail G MG

Nature communications 20160531

White adipose tissue (WAT) overgrowth in obesity is linked with increased aggressiveness of certain cancers. Adipose stromal cells (ASCs) can become mobilized from WAT, recruited by tumours and promote cancer progression. Mechanisms underlying ASC trafficking are unclear. Here we demonstrate that chemokines CXCL1 and CXCL8 chemoattract ASC by signalling through their receptors, CXCR1 and CXCR2, in cell culture models. We further show that obese patients with prostate cancer have increased epithe ...[more]

PMID: 27241286

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CXCL1 mediates obesity-associated adipose stromal cell trafficking and function in the tumour microenvironment.

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CXCL1 mediates obesity-associated adipose stromal cell trafficking and function in the tumour microenvironment.

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