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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-2-15
pubmed:abstractText
Malignant gliomas are the prototype of highly infiltrative tumors and this characteristic is the main factor for the inevitable tumor recurrence and short survival after most aggressive therapies. The aberrant communication between glioma cells and tumor microenvironment represents one of the major factors regulating brain tumor dispersal. Our group has previously reported that the tyrosine kinase receptor Tie2/TEK is expressed in glioma cells and brain tumor stem cells and is associated with the malignant progression of these tumors. In this study, we sought to determine whether the angiopoietin 1 (Ang1)/Tie2 axis regulates crosstalk between glioma cells and endothelial cells. We found that Ang1 enhanced the adhesion of Tie2-expressing glioma and brain tumor stem cells to endothelial cells. Conversely, specific small interfering RNA (siRNA) knockdown of Tie2 expression inhibited the adhesion capability of glioma cells. Tie2 activation induced integrin ?1 and N-cadherin upregulation, and neutralizing antibodies against these molecules inhibited the adhesion of Tie2-positive glioma cells to endothelial cells. In 2D and 3D cultures, we observed that Ang1/Tie2 axis activation was related to increased glioma cell invasion, which was inhibited by using Tie2 siRNA. Importantly, intracranial co-implantation of Tie2-positive glioma cells and endothelial cells in a mouse model resulted in diffusely invasive tumors with cell clusters surrounding glomeruloid vessels mimicking a tumoral niche distribution. Collectively, our results provide new information about the Tie2 signaling in glioma cells that regulates the cross-talk between glioma cells and tumor microenvironment, envisioning Tie2 as a multi-compartmental target for glioma therapy.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1949-2553
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
700-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-7-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Brain Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Cell Adhesion, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Cell Communication, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Endothelial Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Female, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Glioma, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Mice, Nude, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Neoplasm Invasiveness, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Neoplastic Stem Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-RNA, Small Interfering, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Receptor, TIE-2, pubmed-meshheading:21321379-Tumor Microenvironment
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Tie2/TEK modulates the interaction of glioma and brain tumor stem cells with endothelial cells and promotes an invasive phenotype.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neuro-Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural