Regeneration enhances metastasis: A novel role for neurovascular signaling in promoting melanoma brain metastasis

Roshini Prakash, Sivan Izraely, Nikita S. Thareja, Rex H. Lee, Maya Rappaport, Riki Kawaguchi, Orit Sagi-Assif, Shlomit Ben-Menachem, Tsipi Meshel, Michal Machnicki, Shuichi Ohe, Dave S. Hoon, Giovanni Coppola, Isaac P. Witz, S. Thomas Carmichael*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Neural repair after stroke involves initiation of a cellular proliferative program in the form of angiogenesis, neurogenesis, and molecular growth signals in the surrounding tissue elements. This cellular environment constitutes a niche in which regeneration of new blood vessels and new neurons leads to partial tissue repair after stroke. Cancer metastasis has similar proliferative cellular events in the brain and other organs. Do cancer and CNS tissue repair share similar cellular processes? In this study, we identify a novel role of the regenerative neurovascular niche induced by stroke in promoting brain melanoma metastasis through enhancing cellular interactions with surrounding niche components. Repair-mediated neurovascular signaling induces metastatic cells to express genes crucial to metastasis. Mimicking stroke-like conditions in vitro displays an enhancement of metastatic migration potential and allows for the determination of cell-specific signals produced by the regenerative neurovascular niche. Comparative analysis of both in vitro and in vivo expression profiles reveals a major contribution of endothelial cells in mediating melanoma metastasis. These results point to a previously undiscovered role of the regenerative neurovascular niche in shaping the tumor microenvironment and brain metastatic landscape.

Original languageEnglish
Article number297
JournalFrontiers in Neuroscience
Volume13
Issue numberAPR
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

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Copyright © 2019 Prakash, Izraely, Thareja, Lee, Rappaport, Kawaguchi, Sagi-Assif, Ben-Menachem, Meshel, Machnicki, Ohe, Hoon, Coppola, Witz and Carmichael. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Keywords

  • Angiogenesis
  • Astrocytosis
  • Gliosis
  • Neuroblast
  • Stroke

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