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Project description:Background: The terminal duct lobular unit (TDLU) is the most dynamic structure in the human breast and the putative site of origin of human breast cancer. Although stromal cells contribute to a specialized microenvironment in many organs, this component remains largely understudied in the human breast. We here demonstrate the impact on epithelium of two lineages of breast stromal fibroblasts, one of which accumulates in the TDLU while the other resides outside the TDLU in the interlobular stroma. Methods: The two lineages are prospectively isolated by FACS based on different expression levels of CD105 and CD26. The characteristics of the two fibroblast lineages are assessed by immunocytochemical staining and gene expression analysis. The differentiation capacity of the two fibroblast populations is determined by exposure to specific differentiating conditions followed by analysis of adipogenic and osteogenic differentiation. To test whether the two fibroblast lineages are functionally imprinted by their site of origin, single cell sorted CD271low/MUC1high normal breast luminal epithelial cells are plated on fibroblast feeders for the observation of morphological development. Epithelial structure formation and polarization is shown by immunofluorescence and digitalized quantification of immunoperoxidase stained cultures. Results: Lobular fibroblasts are CD105high/CD26low while interlobular fibroblasts are CD105low/CD26high. Once isolated the two lineages remain phenotypically stable and functionally distinct in culture. Lobular fibroblasts have properties in common with bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells and they specifically convey growth and branching morphogenesis of epithelial progenitors. Conclusions: Two distinct functionally specialized fibroblast lineages exist in the normal human breast, of which the lobular fibroblasts have properties in common with mesenchymal stem cells and support epithelial growth and morphogenesis. We propose that lobular fibroblasts constitute a specialized microenvironment for human breast luminal epithelial progenitors, i.e. the putative precursors of breast cancer.
2016-10-06 | GSE86181 | GEO
Project description:Molecular Profiling provides evidence of the existence of two functionally distinct classes of ovarian cancer stroma
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2024-05-01 | GSE234777 | GEO
Project description:DNA methylation at enhancers identifies distinct breast cancer lineages
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Project description:How organ-specific metastatic traits accumulate in primary tumors remains unknown. We identified a role of the primary tumor stroma in selecting breast cancer cells that are primed for metastasis in the bone. A fibroblast-rich stroma in breast tumors creates a microenvironment that is similar to that of bone metastases in its abundance of the cytokines CXCL12 and IGF1. Heterogeneous breast cancer cell populations growing in such mesenchymal environment evolve towards a preponderance of clones that thrive on CXCL12 and IGF1. Fibroblast-driven selection of bone metastatic clones in mammary tumors is suppressed by CXCL12 and IGF1 receptor inhibition. Thus, a fibroblast-rich stroma in breast tumors can pre-select bone metastatic seeds, promoting the evolution of metastatic traits and the interplay between a primary tumor and its distant metastases.
2013-11-01 | GSE47389 | GEO
Project description:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an independent risk factor for lung cancer, suggesting that COPD stroma favors cancer initiation. Therefore, we used proteomics and polysome-profiling to identify gene expression programs that distinguish stroma of patients harboring lung cancer from those that do not, with varied COPD severities. This profiling unveiled distinct COPD-dependent cancer-associated gene expression programs predominantly manifesting as alterations in mRNA translation. Mechanistically, such programs are downstream of the mammalian target of rapamycin pathway in mild COPD and pathological extracellular matrix in more severe COPD; and both programs parallel activation of distinct pro-cancer fibroblast-derived secretomes. Therefore, depending upon COPD severity, the lung stroma can exist in two states favoring cancer initiation, which likely result in distinct disease entities.
2021-11-03 | PXD007743 | Pride
Project description:Highly specialized, acid-secreting PCs are one of many epithelial lineages that line the gastric epithelium. Even though PCs are functionally and structurally distinct from other lineages in the stomach, the molecular mechanisms that govern their specification and maturation from the gastric stem cells are relatively unknown. We used single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to construct a transcriptional profile for regenerating PCs and identify candidate regulators of PC fate specification and maturation.
2024-05-01 | GSE236098 | GEO
Project description:How organ-specific metastatic traits accumulate in primary tumors remains unknown. We identified a role of the primary tumor stroma in selecting breast cancer cells that are primed for metastasis in the bone. A fibroblast-rich stroma in breast tumors creates a microenvironment that is similar to that of bone metastases in its abundance of the cytokines CXCL12 and IGF1. Heterogeneous breast cancer cell populations growing in such mesenchymal environment evolve towards a preponderance of clones that thrive on CXCL12 and IGF1. Fibroblast-driven selection of bone metastatic clones in mammary tumors is suppressed by CXCL12 and IGF1 receptor inhibition. Thus, a fibroblast-rich stroma in breast tumors can pre-select bone metastatic seeds, promoting the evolution of metastatic traits and the interplay between a primary tumor and its distant metastases. Affymetrix U133 Plus2 arrays were hybridized according to the manufacturer's procedure using RNA extracted from 47 primary breast tumors. Specific gene sets were evaluated in this cohort.
2013-11-01 | E-GEOD-47389 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2020-09-03 | GSE157353 | GEO
Project description:Functionally distinct disease-associated fibroblast subsets in rheumatoid arthritis
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