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Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis

The homing of Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) to tumor angiogenic sites has been described as a multistep process, involving adhesion, migration, incorporation and sprouting, for which the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms are yet to be fully defined. Here, we studied the expression o...

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Autores principales: Czabanka, Marcus, Petrilli, Lucia Lisa, Elvers-Hornung, Susanne, Bieback, Karen, Albert Imhof, Beat, Vajkoczy, Peter, Vinci, Maria
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7072851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32054130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041209
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author Czabanka, Marcus
Petrilli, Lucia Lisa
Elvers-Hornung, Susanne
Bieback, Karen
Albert Imhof, Beat
Vajkoczy, Peter
Vinci, Maria
author_facet Czabanka, Marcus
Petrilli, Lucia Lisa
Elvers-Hornung, Susanne
Bieback, Karen
Albert Imhof, Beat
Vajkoczy, Peter
Vinci, Maria
author_sort Czabanka, Marcus
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description The homing of Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) to tumor angiogenic sites has been described as a multistep process, involving adhesion, migration, incorporation and sprouting, for which the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms are yet to be fully defined. Here, we studied the expression of Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C (JAM-C) by EPCs and its role in EPC homing to tumor angiogenic vessels. For this, we used mouse embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells (e-EPCs), intravital multi-fluorescence microscopy techniques and the dorsal skin-fold chamber model. JAM-C was found to be expressed by e-EPCs and endothelial cells. Blocking JAM-C did not affect adhesion of e-EPCs to endothelial monolayers in vitro but, interestingly, it did reduce their adhesion to tumor endothelium in vivo. The most striking effect of JAM-C blocking was on tube formation on matrigel in vitro and the incorporation and sprouting of e-EPCs to tumor endothelium in vivo. Our results demonstrate that JAM-C mediates e-EPC recruitment to tumor angiogenic sites, i.e., coordinated homing of EPCs to the perivascular niche, where they cluster and interact with tumor blood vessels. This suggests that JAM-C plays a critical role in the process of vascular assembly and may represent a potential therapeutic target to control tumor angiogenesis.
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spelling pubmed-70728512020-03-19 Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis Czabanka, Marcus Petrilli, Lucia Lisa Elvers-Hornung, Susanne Bieback, Karen Albert Imhof, Beat Vajkoczy, Peter Vinci, Maria Int J Mol Sci Article The homing of Endothelial Progenitor Cells (EPCs) to tumor angiogenic sites has been described as a multistep process, involving adhesion, migration, incorporation and sprouting, for which the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms are yet to be fully defined. Here, we studied the expression of Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C (JAM-C) by EPCs and its role in EPC homing to tumor angiogenic vessels. For this, we used mouse embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells (e-EPCs), intravital multi-fluorescence microscopy techniques and the dorsal skin-fold chamber model. JAM-C was found to be expressed by e-EPCs and endothelial cells. Blocking JAM-C did not affect adhesion of e-EPCs to endothelial monolayers in vitro but, interestingly, it did reduce their adhesion to tumor endothelium in vivo. The most striking effect of JAM-C blocking was on tube formation on matrigel in vitro and the incorporation and sprouting of e-EPCs to tumor endothelium in vivo. Our results demonstrate that JAM-C mediates e-EPC recruitment to tumor angiogenic sites, i.e., coordinated homing of EPCs to the perivascular niche, where they cluster and interact with tumor blood vessels. This suggests that JAM-C plays a critical role in the process of vascular assembly and may represent a potential therapeutic target to control tumor angiogenesis. MDPI 2020-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7072851/ /pubmed/32054130 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041209 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Czabanka, Marcus
Petrilli, Lucia Lisa
Elvers-Hornung, Susanne
Bieback, Karen
Albert Imhof, Beat
Vajkoczy, Peter
Vinci, Maria
Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis
title Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis
title_full Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis
title_fullStr Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis
title_full_unstemmed Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis
title_short Junctional Adhesion Molecule-C Mediates the Recruitment of Embryonic-Endothelial Progenitor Cells to the Perivascular Niche during Tumor Angiogenesis
title_sort junctional adhesion molecule-c mediates the recruitment of embryonic-endothelial progenitor cells to the perivascular niche during tumor angiogenesis
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7072851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32054130
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041209
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