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  • Title: TNF-α derived from M2 tumor-associated macrophages promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition and cancer stemness through the Wnt/β-catenin pathway in SMMC-7721 hepatocellular carcinoma cells.
    Author: Chen Y, Wen H, Zhou C, Su Q, Lin Y, Xie Y, Huang Y, Qiu Q, Lin J, Huang X, Tan W, Min C, Wang C.
    Journal: Exp Cell Res; 2019 May 01; 378(1):41-50. PubMed ID: 30844387.
    Abstract:
    M2-polarized tumor-associated macrophages (M2-TAMs) infiltrating the tumor microenvironment contribute to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression. It was reported that cancer cells undergoing EMT will acquire stemness characteristics. Here, the HCC SMMC-7721 cell line was co-cultured with M2-TAMs polarized from THP-1 cells in vitro. In in vivo studies, we used nude mice subcutaneous tumor model to test whether the growth of the tumor was affected by M2-TAMs. Subsequently, EMT, stemness and Wnt/β-catenin pathway related markers were detected in cells and subcutaneous tumor tissues. TNF-α was also assessed in both the co-culture system supernatants and in nude mice serum. We found that SMMC-7721 underwent EMT and acquired stemness after co-culture with M2-TAMs, and resulted in larger tumor size following subcutaneous injection of SMMC-7721 suspended in M2-TAMs supernatants compared with SMMC-7721 alone. Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay showed that TNF-α expression was elevated in supernatants of M2-TAMs and positively correlated with tumor size in the serum of nude mice. Furthermore, we found that the Wnt/β-catenin pathway was a downstream target of TNF-α and that the Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor ICG-001 partially reversed EMT and attenuated cancer stemness. Our results indicate that TNF-α derived from M2-TAMs promote EMT and cancer stemness cells via the Wnt/β-catenin pathway.
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