Analysis of tumor- and stroma-supplied proteolytic networks in different metastatic tumor microenvironments identifies a critical role for cathepsin S in brain metastasis
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ABSTRACT: Metastasis is a multistage process that requires cancer cells to escape from the primary tumor, survive in the circulation, seed at distant sites and colonize these foreign tissue environments. Each of these processes involves rate-limiting steps that are influenced by stromal cells of the tumor microenvironment. While the tumor microenvironment has emerged as a major regulator of cancer progression in other organ sites, our knowledge of the brain metastatic microenvironment is currently very limited. Thus, we aim to dissect signatures of tumor-stroma interactions in brain metastasis in order to identify factors that regulate the homing, seeding and outgrowth of cancer cells in this highly specialized microenvironment. We took advantage of an experimental metastasis model in which variants of the human breast cancer line MDA-MB-231 home to the brain in xenografted animals. To simultaneously capture gene expression changes in the tumor and stromal compartment, we used a dual species-specific microarray platform, the HuMuProtIn array, to discriminate between differentially expressed protease or protease inhibitor genes of human (tumor) or murine (stromal) origin.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE47930 | GEO | 2014/07/04
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA208376
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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