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    Effect of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors on Cancer Invasion

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    Genre
    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2019
    Author
    Esmaeili Pourfarhangi, Kamyar
    Advisor
    Gligorijevic, Bojana
    Committee member
    Lelkes, Peter I.
    Bellas, Evangelia
    Tuzel, Erkan
    Petrie, Ryan
    Department
    Bioengineering
    Subject
    Bioengineering
    Engineering, Biomedical
    Cancer Invasion
    Cell Migration
    Chemotaxis
    Contact Guidance
    Invadopodia
    Mechanobiology
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/488
    Abstract
    Metastasis is the leading cause of death among cancer patients. The metastatic cascade, during which cancer cells from the primary tumor reach a distant organ and form multiple secondary tumors, consists of a series of events starting with cancer cells invasion through the surrounding tissue of the primary tumor. Invading cells may perform proteolytic degradation of the surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM) and directed migration in order to disseminate through the tissue. Both of the mentioned processes are profoundly affected by several parameters originating from the tumor microenvironment (extrinsic) and tumor cells themselves (intrinsic). However, due to the complexity of the invasion process and heterogeneity of the tumor tissue, the exact effect of many of these parameters are yet to be elucidated. ECM proteolysis is widely performed by cancer cells to facilitate the invasion process through the dense and highly cross-linked tumor tissue. It has been shown in vivo that the proteolytic activity of the cancer cells correlates with the cross-linking level of their surrounding ECM. Therefore, the first part of this thesis seeks to understand how ECM cross-linking regulates cancer cells proteolytic activity. This chapter first quantitatively characterizes the correlation between ECM cross-linking and the dynamics of cancer cells proteolytic activity and then identifies ß1-integrin subunit as a master regulator of this process. Once cancer cells degrade their immediate ECM, they directionally migrate through it. Bundles of aligned collagen fibers and gradients of soluble growth factors are two well-known cues of directed migration that are abundantly present in tumor tissues stimulating contact guidance and chemotaxis, respectively. While such cues direct the cells towards a specific direction, they are also known to stimulate cell cycle progression. Moreover, due to the complexity of the tumor tissue, cells may be exposed to both cues simultaneously, and this co-stimulation may happen in the same or different directions. Hence, in the next two chapters of this thesis, the effect of cell cycle progression and contact guidance-chemotaxis dual-cue environments on directional migration of invading cells are assessed. First, we show that cell cycle progression affects contact guidance and not random motility of the cells. Next, we show how exposure of cancer cells to contact guidance-chemotaxis dual-cue environments can improve distinctive aspects of cancer invasion depending on the spatial conformation of the two cues. In this dissertation, we strive to achieve the defined milestones by developing novel mathematical and experimental models of cancer invasion as well as utilizing fluorescent time-lapse microscopy and automated image and signal processing techniques. The results of this study improve our knowledge about the role of the studied extrinsic and intrinsic cues in cancer invasion.
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