Eotaxin-2 and colorectal cancer: a potential target for immune therapy
Cheadle, Eleanor J Riyad, Kallingal Subar, Daren Rothwell, Dominic G Ashton, Garry Batha, Hayley Sherlock, David J Hawkins, Robert E Gilham, David E
Cheadle, Eleanor J
Riyad, Kallingal
Subar, Daren
Rothwell, Dominic G
Ashton, Garry
Batha, Hayley
Sherlock, David J
Hawkins, Robert E
Gilham, David E
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Abstract
PURPOSE: To study the production of chemokines by colorectal hepatic metastases. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: Biopsies of resected colorectal hepatic metastases and nonneoplastic adjacent liver tissue were screened for chemokines using protein arrays and results were confirmed by ELISA and immunohistochemistry. RESULTS: Two chemokines, eotaxin-2 and MCP-1, were found at elevated levels within the tumor biopsy compared with adjacent liver. The relative increase in expression from tumor was much higher for eotaxin-2 than MCP-1, with 10 of 25 donors having a >100-fold increase in expression compared with 0 of 24 donors for MCP-1. In a parallel analysis, eotaxin-2 was also found at elevated levels in the tumor region of primary colorectal cancer biopsies. Immunohistochemical staining indicated that carcinoembryonic antigen-positive tumor cells stained strongly for eotaxin-2, implicating these cells as the predominant source of the chemokine. In vitro studies confirmed that several colorectal tumor lines produce eotaxin-2 and that secretion of this chemokine could be depressed by IFN-gamma and enhanced by the Th2-type cytokines interleukin-4 and interleukin-13. Jurkat T cells were engineered to express the receptor for eotaxin-2 (CCR3). These cells effectively migrated in response to eotaxin-2 protein, suggesting that immune cells gene modified to express a chemokine receptor may have improved abilities to home to tumor. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, these observations confirm eotaxin-2 as a chemokine strongly associated with primary and metastatic tumors of colorectal origin. Furthermore, the importance of this result may be a useful tool in the development of targeted therapeutic approaches to colorectal tumors.
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Date
2007-10-01
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Keywords
Cell Line Tumour
Colorectal Cancer
Liver Cancer
Cancer Metastasis
Colorectal Cancer
Liver Cancer
Cancer Metastasis
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Article
Citation
Eotaxin-2 and colorectal cancer: a potential target for immune therapy. 2007, 13 (19):5719-28 Clin. Cancer Res.