Molecular interplay between dormant bone marrow-resident cells (BMRCs) and CTCs in breast cancer.
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ABSTRACT: Despite widespread knowledge that bone marrow-resident breast cancer cells (BMRCs) affect tumor progression, signaling mechanisms of BMRCs implicated in maintaining long-term dormancy have not been characterized. To overcome these hurdles, we developed a novel experimental model of tumor dormancy employing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) derived from metastatic breast cancer patients (de novo CTCs), transplanted them in immunocompromised mice, and re-isolated these cells from xenografted mice bone marrow (ex vivo BMRCs) and blood (ex vivo CTCs) to perform downstream transcriptomic analyses. Here we report that the balance between mTORC1 vs mTORC2 signaling regulates BMRC mitotic and/or dormancy characteristics.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE150624 | GEO | 2020/05/15
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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