Leukemia Cell Lines Induce Changes in Bone Marrow Stromal Cells
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ABSTRACT: Bone marrow derived stromal cells (BMSCs) are a multipotent population that supports angiogenesis, wound healing, immunomodulation and plays an active role in the hematopoietic niche. On the other hand, they are also involved in the nurturing of bone marrow tumors and metastasis, showing a pro-tumorigenic behavior. BMSCs secrete a wide range of cytokines, growth factors and matrix proteins that are likely responsible for many of these effects. However, it is not clear whether this pro-tumorigenic behavior of BMSCs is induced by the tumor cells, neither in what extent the tumor cells affect the type and quantity of factors produced by BMSCs. To determine how tumor cells that arise from bone marrow affect the BMSCs, we selected three myeloid leukemia cell lines (TF-1, TF-1alpha and K562) and co-cultured them with BMSCs from healthy donors. We found that, under co-culture condition, the gene expression profiling of BMSCs revealed up-regulation of many pro-inflammatory signaling related genes, mainly IL-17 signaling-related genes. Moreover, IL-17 signaling-related cytokines CCL2 and IL8, were increased in co-culture supernatants. We conclude that BMSCs react to the presence of leukemia cells undergoing changes in the cytokine and chemokine secretion profile. Thus, BMSCs and leukemia cells both contribute to the creation of a competitive niche more favorable to leukemia stem cells.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE45663 | GEO | 2014/02/04
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA195933
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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