Significance of VLA-4-VCAM-1 interaction and CD44 for transendothelial invasion in a bone marrow metastatic myeloma model - PubMed (original) (raw)

Significance of VLA-4-VCAM-1 interaction and CD44 for transendothelial invasion in a bone marrow metastatic myeloma model

T Okada et al. Clin Exp Metastasis. 1999.

Abstract

In previous work, we established the B9/BM1 syngeneic murine bone marrow metastasis model. Interleukin (IL)-6-dependent. IL-1-producing B9/BM1 cells, which colonize the vertebral and femoral marrow after i.v. injection, show great similarity in cell surface phenotype to human myeloma cells, especially the expression of 3 adhesion molecules, CD44, VLA-4 and ICAM-1. Here we investigated the function of these adhesion molecules by binding and transendothelial invasion assays using a newly established bone marrow-derived endothelial cell line (BMEC). A combination of monoclonal antibodies against CD44 and VLA-4 significantly inhibited the adherence of B9/BM1 cells to BMEC and anti-CD44 mAb especially blocked B9/BM1 transendothelial invasion of unstimulated BMEC cells. Results of additional experiments, in which the cells were treated with anti-CD44 and hyaluronidase, demonstrated that the interaction of CD44 molecules on B9/BM1 cells with hyaluronan on BMEC cells was a critical factor in both adhesion and transendothelial invasion in this model. However, stimulation of BMEC with TNFalpha resulted in increased invasion by B9/BM1 cells, which was completely suppressed by anti-VCAM-1 mAb, implicating a significant role of this adhesion molecule in this process during inflammation.

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