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Paradoxical Roles of Peritumoral Hepatic Stellate Cells in Liver Tumorigenesis in Mice: Retarding Tumor Growth and Promoting Tumor Dissemination

Zhu, L.; Tian, C.; Li, L.; Fan, L.; Brown, A.; Norris, E. J.

2021-02-19 cancer biology
10.1101/2021.02.19.432035 bioRxiv
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Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) is an aggressive type of primary liver cancer characterized by its highly desmoplastic stroma. Compared to the ample knowledge on cancer-associated fibroblast residing within iCCA tumor mass, little is known about the fibrotic response from the tumor-surrounding liver and its role in iCCA development. In this study, we find a significant accumulation of peritumoral myofibroblasts (pMFs) in both patient iCCA and tumors from an iCCA orthotopic allograft mouse model. Using tumor and liver spheroid coculture we show that iCCA-liver interaction induces rapid pMF accumulation at the interface. We find pMFs placed around iCCA spheroids exert a strong suppressive effect on tumor cells growth, in contrast to the pro-proliferative effect of MFs mixed within tumor spheroids. However, prolonged iCCA-pMF interaction elicits tumor cell dissemination in vitro. We find an upregulation of Vcam1 in tumor cells in the early phase of iCCA-pMF interaction both in vitro and in vivo which is downregulated when tumor cells disseminate. Blocking Vcam1 activity in iCCA allograft mouse models slows primary tumor growth but lead to increased tumor metastasis. Our data suggest that pMFs are beyond simple pro- or anti-tumorigenic in iCCA, with the ability to suppress tumor growth but elicit tumor cell dissemination.

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