TY - JOUR
T1 - Triangular correlation (TrC) between cancer aggressiveness, cell uptake capability, and cell deformability
AU - Brill-Karniely, Yifat
AU - Dror, Dvir
AU - Duanis-Assaf, Tal
AU - Goldstein, Yoel
AU - Schwob, Ouri
AU - Millo, Talya
AU - Orehov, Natalie
AU - Stern, Tal
AU - Jaber, Mohammad
AU - Loyfer, Netanel
AU - Vosk-Artzi, Margarita
AU - Benyamini, Hadar
AU - Bielenberg, Diane
AU - Kaplan, Tommy
AU - Buganim, Yosef
AU - Reches, Meital
AU - Benny, Ofra
N1 - Funding Information: We thank The Crown Genomics institute of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science for RNA sequencing and G. Friedlander, Mantoux Bioinformatics Institute of the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine, Weizmann Institute of Science, for analyzing the RNA sequence. We thank N. Melamed-Book from the Bio-Imaging Unit of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for assistance with time-lapse confocal imaging. Funding: This project received funding from the European Research Council (ERC-StG) under the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no. 0305260). We thank the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) (grant agreement no. 0394906) and the Israel Science Foundation (grant agreement no. 0394883) for funding and the Teacher-Scholars program of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem supported by Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2020 The Authors
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The malignancy potential is correlated with the mechanical deformability of the cancer cells. However, mechanical tests for clinical applications are limited. We present here a Triangular Correlation (TrC) between cell deformability, phagocytic capacity, and cancer aggressiveness, suggesting that phagocytic measurements can be a mechanical surrogate marker of malignancy. The TrC was proved in human prostate cancer cells with different malignancy potential, and in human bladder cancer and melanoma cells that were sorted into subpopulations based solely on their phagocytic capacity. The more phagocytic subpopulations showed elevated aggressiveness ex vivo and in vivo. The uptake potential was preserved, and differences in gene expression and in epigenetic signature were detected. In all cases, enhanced phagocytic and aggressiveness phenotypes were correlated with greater cell deformability and predicted by a computational model. Our multidisciplinary study provides the proof of concept that phagocytic measurements can be applied for cancer diagnostics and precision medicine.
AB - The malignancy potential is correlated with the mechanical deformability of the cancer cells. However, mechanical tests for clinical applications are limited. We present here a Triangular Correlation (TrC) between cell deformability, phagocytic capacity, and cancer aggressiveness, suggesting that phagocytic measurements can be a mechanical surrogate marker of malignancy. The TrC was proved in human prostate cancer cells with different malignancy potential, and in human bladder cancer and melanoma cells that were sorted into subpopulations based solely on their phagocytic capacity. The more phagocytic subpopulations showed elevated aggressiveness ex vivo and in vivo. The uptake potential was preserved, and differences in gene expression and in epigenetic signature were detected. In all cases, enhanced phagocytic and aggressiveness phenotypes were correlated with greater cell deformability and predicted by a computational model. Our multidisciplinary study provides the proof of concept that phagocytic measurements can be applied for cancer diagnostics and precision medicine.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85078094141
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.aax2861
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.aax2861
M3 - Article
C2 - 31998832
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 6
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
IS - 3
M1 - eaax2861
ER -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being