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[Cancer Research 61, 2250-2255, March 1, 2001]
© 2001 American Association for Cancer Research


Tumor Biology

Tumor Necrosis Factor {alpha} and Interleukin 11 Secreted by Malignant Breast Epithelial Cells Inhibit Adipocyte Differentiation by Selectively Down-Regulating CCAAT/Enhancer Binding Protein {alpha} and Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor {gamma}

Mechanism of Desmoplastic Reaction1

Li Meng2, Jianfeng Zhou2, Hironobu Sasano, Takashi Suzuki, Khaled M. Zeitoun and Serdar E. Bulun3

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75235 [L. M., K. M. Z.]; Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612-7313 [J. Z., S. E. B.]; and Department of Pathology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai 980, Japan [H. S., T. S.]

The dense layer of fibroblasts that accumulate around malignant breast epithelial cells (i.e., desmoplastic reaction) arises from the breast adipose tissue and provides structural and biochemical support for breast cancer. We report herein a number of epithelial-stromal interactions responsible for desmoplastic reaction in breast cancer using cultured 3T3-L1 murine fibroblasts and human adipose fibroblasts, which can be activated with a mixture of hormones to differentiate to mature adipocytes. Adipocyte differentiation was inhibited by coculturing fibroblasts with various breast cancer cell lines (T47D, MCF-7, SSC202, SSC78, and SSC30) completely or by breast cancer cell conditioned media in a dose-dependent manner; on the other hand, adipocyte differentiation was not inhibited by coculturing with normal human primary mammary epithelial cell conditioned medium. This tumor effect was eliminated using neutralizing antibodies against tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-{alpha} or interleukin (IL)-11. TNF-{alpha} and IL-11 levels were 2.5–3 times higher in T47D conditioned medium compared with control medium, and TNF-{alpha} transcripts were detectable in T47D but not in 3T3-L1 cells in culture, indicating that the malignant epithelial cell is the major site of cytokine production. This was confirmed in vivo in mastectomy specimens, where immunoreactive TNF-{alpha} and IL-11 were readily detectable in malignant epithelial cells but not in the majority of the surrounding fibroblasts. Adipocyte differentiation is mediated by the expression of a cascade of adipogenic transcription factors, including CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP)ß, C/EBP{delta}, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR){gamma} and C/EBP{alpha}. C/EBP{alpha} and PPAR{gamma} are essential for this process. We demonstrated by Northern analysis that exposure of activated 3T3-L1 cells to T47D cell conditioned medium strikingly decreased the levels of PPAR{gamma} and C/EBP{alpha} transcripts and increased the levels of C/EBPß and C/EBP{delta} transcripts. In these 3T3-L1 cells, inhibition of differentiation was also confirmed by markedly suppressed levels of aP2 mRNA, which is an adipocyte-specific gene. These in vitro observations were confirmed in sections of human malignant breast tumors, where immunoreactive C/EBP{alpha} was readily detectable in adipose fibroblasts distant to the tumor but not in intratumoral fibroblasts. Treatment of 3T3-L1 cells with T47D cell conditioned medium or TNF-{alpha} changed neither the numbers of cells in G0-G1, S, and G2 phases nor the rate of [3H]thymidine incorporation, thus ruling out a proliferative effect of malignant cells on the surrounding fibroblasts. In summary, desmoplastic reaction primarily occurs via the action of cytokines (TNF-{alpha} and IL-11) secreted by the malignant epithelial cells to inhibit differentiation of adipose fibroblasts to mature adipocytes. This tumor-induced block in adipocyte differentiation is mediated by the selective inhibition of expression of the essential adipogenic transcription factors, i.e., PPAR{gamma} and C/EBP{alpha}.




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