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Hadjidaniel, Michael D; Muthugounder, Sakunthala; Hung, Long T; Sheard, Michael A; Shirinbak, Soheila; Chan, Randall Y; Nakata, Rie; Borriello, Lucia; Malvar, Jemily; Kennedy, Rebekah J; Iwakura, Hiroshi; Akamizu, Takashi; Sposto, Richard; Shimada, Hiroyuki; DeClerck, Yves A; Asgharzadeh, Shahab
Oncotarget, 10/2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 53Journal Article
Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are strongly associated with poor survival in neuroblastomas that lack amplification. To study TAM action in neuroblastomas, we used a novel murine model of spontaneous neuroblastoma lacking amplification, and observed recruitment and polarization of TAMs, which in turn enhanced neuroblastoma proliferation and growth. In both murine and human neuroblastoma cells, we found that TAMs increased STAT3 activation in neuroblastoma cells and transcriptionally up-regulated the oncogene. Analysis of human neuroblastoma tumor specimens revealed that MYC up-regulation correlates with markers of TAM infiltration. In an neuroblastoma model, the absence of IL-6 protein had no effect on tumor development and prevented neither STAT3 activation nor MYC up-regulation. In contrast, inhibition of JAK-STAT activation using AZD1480 or the clinically admissible inhibitor ruxolitinib significantly reduced TAM-mediated growth of neuroblastomas implanted subcutaneously in NOD scid gamma mice. Our results point to a unique mechanism in which TAMs promote tumor cells that lack amplification of an oncogene common to the malignancy by up-regulating transcriptional expression of a distinct oncogene from the same gene family, and underscore the role of IL-6-independent activation of STAT3 in this mechanism. Amplification of or constitutive up-regulation of protein is observed in approximately half of high-risk tumors; our findings indicate a novel role of TAMs as inducers of expression in neuroblastomas lacking independent oncogene activation.
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