TY - JOUR
T1 - Biomaterial Platform to Establish a Hypoxic Metastatic Niche in Vivo
AU - Lee, Hak Rae
AU - Pelaez, Francisco
AU - Silbaugh, Abby M.
AU - Leslie, Faith
AU - Racila, Emilian
AU - Azarin, Samira M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2019/4/15
Y1 - 2019/4/15
N2 - Hypoxia is a hallmark of tumor microenvironments, exerting wide-ranging impacts on key processes of tumor progression and metastasis. However, our understanding of how hypoxia regulates these processes has been based primarily on studying the effects of hypoxia within the primary tumor. Recently, an increasing number of studies have suggested the importance of hypoxic regulation within metastatic target organs, but hypoxic metastatic niches in the body are difficult to access with current imaging techniques, hampering detailed in vivo investigation of hypoxia at metastatic sites. Here, we report an engineered biomaterial scaffold that is able to establish an in vivo hypoxic metastatic niche in a readily accessible area, enabling the investigation of hypoxic regulation at a metastatic site. We engineered hypoxic environments within microporous poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLG) scaffolds, which have previously been shown to act as premetastatic niche mimics, via the addition of CoCl2, a hypoxia-mimetic agent. When implanted into the subcutaneous region of mice, CoCl2-containing PLG (Co-PLG) scaffolds established hypoxic microenvironments, as evidenced by the stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF1α) and increased blood vessel formation in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, implanted Co-PLG scaffolds were able to recruit 4T1 metastatic breast cancer cells. These results demonstrate that Co-PLG scaffolds can establish an in vivo hypoxic metastatic niche, providing a novel platform to investigate hypoxic regulation of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) at target organs.
AB - Hypoxia is a hallmark of tumor microenvironments, exerting wide-ranging impacts on key processes of tumor progression and metastasis. However, our understanding of how hypoxia regulates these processes has been based primarily on studying the effects of hypoxia within the primary tumor. Recently, an increasing number of studies have suggested the importance of hypoxic regulation within metastatic target organs, but hypoxic metastatic niches in the body are difficult to access with current imaging techniques, hampering detailed in vivo investigation of hypoxia at metastatic sites. Here, we report an engineered biomaterial scaffold that is able to establish an in vivo hypoxic metastatic niche in a readily accessible area, enabling the investigation of hypoxic regulation at a metastatic site. We engineered hypoxic environments within microporous poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLG) scaffolds, which have previously been shown to act as premetastatic niche mimics, via the addition of CoCl2, a hypoxia-mimetic agent. When implanted into the subcutaneous region of mice, CoCl2-containing PLG (Co-PLG) scaffolds established hypoxic microenvironments, as evidenced by the stabilization of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF1α) and increased blood vessel formation in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, implanted Co-PLG scaffolds were able to recruit 4T1 metastatic breast cancer cells. These results demonstrate that Co-PLG scaffolds can establish an in vivo hypoxic metastatic niche, providing a novel platform to investigate hypoxic regulation of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) at target organs.
KW - biomaterial scaffolds
KW - disseminated tumor cells
KW - hypoxia
KW - metastasis
KW - metastatic niche
KW - tumor microenvironment
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U2 - 10.1021/acsabm.8b00837
DO - 10.1021/acsabm.8b00837
M3 - Article
C2 - 35026889
AN - SCOPUS:85072841104
SN - 2576-6422
VL - 2
SP - 1549
EP - 1560
JO - ACS Applied Bio Materials
JF - ACS Applied Bio Materials
IS - 4
ER -