PV1 down‐regulation via shRNA inhibits the growth of pancreatic adenocarcinoma xenografts |
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Authors: | Sophie J Deharvengt Dan Tse Olga Sideleva Caitlin McGarry Jason R Gunn Daniel S Longnecker Catherine Carriere Radu V Stan |
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Institution: | 1. Departments of Pathology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, , Lebanon, NH, USA;2. Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, , Lebanon, NH, USA;3. Department of Engineering Sciences, Thayer School of Engineering, , Hanover, NH, USA;4. Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, , Lebanon, NH, USA;5. Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, , Lebanon, NH, USA;6. Heart and Vascular Research Center, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, , Lebanon, NH, USA |
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Abstract: | PV1 is an endothelial‐specific protein with structural roles in the formation of diaphragms in endothelial cells of normal vessels. PV1 is also highly expressed on endothelial cells of many solid tumours. On the basis of in vitro data, PV1 is thought to actively participate in angiogenesis. To test whether or not PV1 has a function in tumour angiogenesis and in tumour growth in vivo, we have treated pancreatic tumour‐bearing mice by single‐dose intratumoural delivery of lentiviruses encoding for two different shRNAs targeting murine PV1. We find that PV1 down‐regulation by shRNAs inhibits the growth of established tumours derived from two different human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell lines (AsPC‐1 and BxPC‐3). The effect observed is because of down‐regulation of PV1 in the tumour endothelial cells of host origin, PV1 being specifically expressed in tumour vascular endothelial cells and not in cancer or other stromal cells. There are no differences in vascular density of tumours treated or not with PV1 shRNA, and gain and loss of function of PV1 in endothelial cells does not modify either their proliferation or migration, suggesting that tumour angiogenesis is not impaired. Together, our data argue that down‐regulation of PV1 in tumour endothelial cells results in the inhibition of tumour growth via a mechanism different from inhibiting angiogenesis. |
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Keywords: | angiogenesis fenestrae vesiculo‐vacuolar organelles caveolae pancreatic cancer transendothelial channels tumour microenvironment |
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