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Quantitative evaluation of the role of the microenvironment in the phenotype, metabolism, and drug resistance of PDAC tumor organoids

Sorzabal, I.; Morales, X.; Cortes-Dominguez, I.; Esparza, M.; Grande, L.; Castillo, P.; Narayanan, S.; Ponz-Sarvise, M.; Vicent, S.; Ortiz-de-Solorzano, C.

2025-01-02 bioengineering
10.1101/2024.12.31.630904 bioRxiv
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Tumor organoids are powerful tools to study cancer. However, the clinical translation of organoid-based studies depends on how closely the organoid scaffolding material recapitulates the tumor extracellular matrix (ECM). We present a quantitative analysis of the effect of scaffold composition on the phenotype, tissue remodeling, metabolism, and drug resistance of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) organoids. We grew PDAC organoids within hydrogels made of Matrigel, collagen-I, or a mixture of collagen-I and Matrigel. Our results show that 1) PDAC organoids grown in Matrigel-only are phenotypically and metabolically similar to low-physiological two-dimensional PDAC cultures; 2) collagen-containing hydrogels, and especially so those grown in hydrogels of mixed collagen-Matrigel composition, accurately reproduce invasive tumors that underwent epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) regarding phenotype, tissue remodeling, metabolic activity, and drug resistance. In summary, our work illustrates the importance of three-dimensional (3D) matrix composition for PDAC growth and postulates that organoids grown in collagen-Matrigel hydrogels are the most adequate for studying the biology of invasive PDAC tumors.

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