Expressão gênica diferencial de fibroblastos de linfonodos comprometidos ou não comprometidos de pacientes com câncer de mama após cultura isolada ou co-cultura com células epiteliais mamárias normais ou malignas / Differential gene expression of fibroblasts from involved or uninvolved lymph nodes from breast cancer patients cultured alone or cocultured with normal or malignant mammary epithelial cells

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2007

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Tumor development may be influenced by epithelial-mesenchimal interactions in the primary site as well as in the involved lymph node from breast cancer patients. Our aim was to evaluate the proliferation rate and gene profile of fibroblasts obtained from involved and uninvolved lymph nodes from breast câncer patients and to determine the influence of normal (MCF10A) or malignant (MDA-MB-231) mammary epithelial cells on the gene expression of these fibroblasts. Primary culture from fibroblasts obtained from 3 involved and 3 uninvolved lymph nodes (ILF and NILF) from 6 different breast cancer patients was established and no difference in their proliferation rate was detected. These fibroblasts were co-cultured with MCF10A or MDA-MB-231 cells, physically separated by a porous membrane for 72 hours. Total RNA was extracted from the cells, amplified and the gene profile from fibroblasts cultured alone or with epithelial cells was analyzed by cDNA microarray slides. Fibroblasts from involved and uninvolved lymph nodes present a similar gene profile as only 13 genes were differentially expressed between them, including PGBD3 and PTBP2, which higher expression in fibroblasts from involved lymph nodes was confirmed by real time RT-PCR. In fibroblasts, more genes seem to be regulated upon co-cultured with MCF10A than with MDA-MB-231 cells. In fibroblasts from uninvolved lymph nodes co-cultured with MDA-MB-231 cells, 151 genes were modulated as compared with fibroblasts cultured alone, and eight of them, presented an expression variation superior to three times (BET1, ENTPD1, USP7, DAPK1, ERBB2 e NCF2). In these fibroblasts, MDA-MB-231 could modulate some signaling pathways as calcium, insulin, gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) and actin cytoskeleton regulation signaling pathways. Two hundred forty nine genes were differentially expressed by fibroblasts from involved lymph nodes co-cultured with MDA-MB-231 cells, four of which with an expression variation superior to three times (ACLY, AXUD1, CLCN5 e PDE6D). In the last condition, fibroblasts had some biological functions regulated upon MDA-MB-231 cells influence, among which amino acid metabolism, excretion, intra-Golgi transport and regulation of cell shape. Signaling pathways and biological functions regulated in fibroblasts after interaction with malignant epithelial cells might be implicated in the development of regional metastasis in breast cancer.

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análise de seqüência com séries de oligonucleotídeos reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction fibroblastos linfonodos breast neoplasms técnicas de cocultura neoplasias mamárias epithelial cells fibroblasts reação em cadeia da polimerase via transcriptase reversa células epiteliais gene expression profiling coculture techniques lymph nodes perfilação da expressão gênica oligonucleotide array sequence analysis

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