Heme oxygenase-1 in macrophages controls prostate cancer progression

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Nemeth, Zsuzsanna
Li, Mailin
Csizmadia, Eva
Döme, Balazs
Johansson, Martin
Persson, Jenny Liao
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Nemeth, Zsuzsanna, Mailin Li, Eva Csizmadia, Balazs Döme, Martin Johansson, Jenny Liao Persson, Pankaj Seth, Leo Otterbein, and Barbara Wegiel. 2015. “Heme oxygenase-1 in macrophages controls prostate cancer progression.” Oncotarget 6 (32): 33675-33688.Abstract
Innate immune cells strongly influence cancer growth and progression via multiple mechanisms including regulation of epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT). In this study, we investigated whether expression of the metabolic gene, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) in tumor microenvironment imparts significant effects on prostate cancer progression. We showed that HO-1 is expressed in MARCO-positive macrophages in prostate cancer (PCa) xenografts and human prostate cancers. We demonstrated that macrophage specific (LyzM-Cre) conditional deletion of HO-1 suppressed growth of PC3 xenografts in vivo and delayed progression of prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) in TRAMP mice. However, initiation and progression of cancer xenografts in the presence of macrophages lacking HO-1 resulted in loss of E-cadherin, a known marker of poor prognosis as well as EMT. Application of CO, a product of HO-1 catalysis, increased levels of E-cadherin in the adherens junctions between cancer cells. We further showed that HO-1-driven expression of E-cadherin in cancer cells cultured in the presence of macrophages is dependent on mitochondrial activity of cancer cells. In summary, these data suggest that HO-1-derived CO from tumor-associated macrophages influences, in part, E-cadherin expression and thus tumor initiation and progression.Other Sources
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