Cell motility of repopulated tumor cells after radiotherapy

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20790872
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Radiation science
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: TSUTSUMI Kaori Hokkaido University, 大学院・保健科学研究院, 助教 (80344505)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2009
• Keywords: 放射線治療 / 再増殖腫瘍細胞 / マトリックスメタロプロテアーゼ / インテグリン

Research Abstract

Radiotherapy is an important noninvasive treatment for many types of cancer. Recently, remarkable progress of technology of radiotherapy leads to an improvement of local control rate. However, the emergence of tolerant cells during or after radiotherapy remains problematic. The patients who relapsed by repopulated tumor have worse prognoses because of more malignant character of repopulated tumor compared with that of before irradiation. Unfortunately, the molecular mechanisms of cause for tumor repopulation remain unknown. To elucidate the molecular profile of repopulated tumor, present study analyzed the cellular properties of surviving tumor after X-ray irradiation by using IR cells which is the model cell line of repopulated tumor. The mRNA expression levels of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) were upregulated in IR cells compared with parental cells. IR cells possessed high gelatinase activities, and increased cell motility, and more invasiveness than parental cells on type-I collagen-coated well. However, phosphorylation of EGF receptor and ERK and cell growth were the same levels between parental cells and IR cells. On the other hand, IR cells adhered more tightly to collagen-coated dishes than parental cells. Consistently, integrin β1, paxillin, and phosphorylated FAK, that were cell-substrate adhesion molecules, were strongly localized at focal adhesions in IR cells, as visualized by immunofluorescence. Whereas, the expression levels of these adhesion molecules were not different between parental cells and IR cells. Increased invasion, migration, and adhesion in IR cells after irradiation might result from the differences of localization of focal adhesion molecules in the cells. These molecules may be important therapeutic targets for the control of repopulated tumors after radiotherapy.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Increased motility and invasiveness in tumor cells that survive 10 Gy irradiation. (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi K, Tsuda M, Yazawa N, Nakamura H, Ishihara S, Haga H, Yasuda M, Yamazaki R, Shirato H, Kawaguchi H, Nishioka T, Ohba Y
  • Journal Title: Cell Struct Funct 34(2) Pages: 89-96
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Cell Motility And Invasion Of Surviving Tumor Cells After 10 Gy Irradiation. (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsutsumi K, Tsuda M, Yazawa N, Nakamura H, Yasuda M, Yamazaki R, Shirato H, Kawaguchi H, Ohba Y, Nishioka T
  • Organizer: 51st ASTRO Annual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Chicago, USA
  • Year and Date: 20091100