Impact des cavines sur le phénotype invasif et inflammatoire des cellules souches mésenchymateuses
The evolution of an initiated tumor cell into a solid tumor requires at each stage a favorable microenvironment for its survival and growth. The tumor microenvironment is compared to a chronic inflammation site with a cellular and molecular complex composition. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) have important roles in tumor microenvironment. They migrate to tumor sites where they maintain the inflammation, angiogenesis and tumor development by activating multiple signaling pathways. One of the major pathways that contribute to inflammation is the NF-B signaling pathway. The initiation of this pathway comes from the cell membrane and caveolae. Our hypothesis is that one of cavins, proteins associated to caveolae, modulates the inflammatory phenotype and migration in MSC treated with TNF-. We suggest that this process is modulated by a NF-B signaling pathway. Indeed, we observed an up-regulation of the expression of the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and a decrease in the expression of IκB which suggest that activation of the NF-B pathway is involved in the MSC treated with TNF. We found that the TNF- induced migration in the MSC, and the knockout of Cavin-2 significantly increased migration of MSC treated with TNF-. The silencing of Cavin-2 considerably increased tubulogenesis of MSC treated with TNF-. At the molecular level, knockout of Cavin-2 showed a very strong amplification of protein expression of COX-2 in the MSC in response to TNF-. In these same cells where Cavin-2 was repressed and treated with TNF-, the peak of phosphorylation of pIB is more intense and the phosphorylation curve is sustained in time. These observations allow us to assert that Cavin-2 has a repressing role on the expression of COX-2. Collectively, our results show that the gene encoding Cavin-2 can be proposed as tumor suppressor gene. This study allowed us to identify new therapeutic targets: Cavins proteins.
Inflammation Migration TNF-alpha COX-2 mesenchymal stem cells cavins inflammation migration TNF-aplha COX-2