Tumor Cell-Driven Extracellular Matrix Remodeling Drives Haptotaxis during Metastatic Progression.

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Fibronectin (FN) is a major component of the tumor microenvironment, but its role in promoting metastasis is incompletely understood. Here, we show that FN gradients elicit directional movement of breast cancer cells, in vitro and in vivo Haptotaxis on FN gradients requires direct interaction between α5β1 integrin and MENA, an actin regulator, and involves increases in focal complex signaling and tumor cell-mediated extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. Compared with MENA, higher levels of the prometastatic MENA(INV) isoform associate with α5, which enables 3-D haptotaxis of tumor cells toward the high FN concentrations typically present in perivascular space and in the periphery of breast tumor tissue. MENA(INV) and FN levels were correlated in two breast cancer cohort

SUBMITTER: Oudin MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4854754 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature