Sox2 Communicates with Tregs Through CCL1 to Promote the Stemness Property of Breast Cancer Cells.

ABSTRACT: As an important component of the tumor microenvironment, CD4⁺ CD25⁺ Tregs reduce antitumor immunity, promote angiogenesis and metastasis in breast cancer. However, their function in regulating the "stemness" of tumor cells and the communication between Tregs and cancer stem cells (CSCs) remain elusive. Here, we disclose that the primarily cultured Tregs isolated from breast-tumor-bearing Foxp3-EGFP mouse upregulate the stemness property of breast cancer cells. Tregs increased the side-population and the Aldehyde dehydrogenase-bright population of mouse breast cancer cells, promoted their sphere formation in a paracrine manner, and enhanced the expression of stemness genes, such as Sox2 and so forth. In addition, Tregs increased tumorigenesis, metastasis, and chemoresi

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5958902 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature