Affiliation:
1. Cancer Research Institute of Northern Alberta, Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2S2, Canada
2. Central Arkansas Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
3. iOnctura BV, Gustav Mahlerplein 102, 1082 MA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract
Breast cancer cells produce negligible quantities of autotaxin. Instead, previous work indicated that adipocytes in the inflamed adipose tissue adjacent to breast tumors are a major source of autotaxin secretion that drives breast tumor growth, metastasis, and the loss of efficacy for chemotherapy and radiotherapy. To test this hypothesis, we used mice with an adipocyte-specific knock out of autotaxin. The lack of autotaxin secretion from adipocytes failed to decrease the growth of orthotopic E0771 breast tumors in syngeneic C57BL/6 mice and the growth and lung metastasis of spontaneous breast tumors in MMTV-PyMT mice. However, the inhibition of autotaxin with IOA-289 decreased the growth of E0771 tumors, indicating that another source of autotaxin is responsible for tumor growth. Tumor-associated fibroblasts and leukocytes produce the majority of autotoxin transcripts in the E0771 breast tumors, and we hypothesize that they are the main sources of ATX that drive breast tumor growth. Autotaxin inhibition with IOA-289 increased the numbers of CD8α+-T-cells in the tumors. This was accompanied by decreases in the concentrations of CXCL10, CCL2, and CXCL9 in the plasma and LIF, TGFβ1, TGFβ2, and prolactin in the tumors. Bioinformatics analysis of human breast tumor databases showed that autotaxin (ENPP2) is expressed mainly in endothelial cells and fibroblasts. Autotaxin expression correlated significantly with increases in IL-6 cytokine receptor ligand interactions, signaling by LIF, TGFβ, and prolactin. This confirms the relevance of results from autotaxin inhibition in the mouse model. We propose that inhibiting autotaxin activity that is derived from cells presenting breast tumors such as fibroblasts, leukocytes, or endothelial cells changes the tumor micro-environment in such a way as to inhibit tumor growth.
Funder
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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