PMID- 19642141 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100122 LR - 20160303 IS - 1097-0215 (Electronic) IS - 0020-7136 (Linking) VI - 126 IP - 5 DP - 2010 Mar 1 TI - Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1)/CCL2 secreted by hepatic myofibroblasts promotes migration and invasion of human hepatoma cells. PG - 1095-108 LID - 10.1002/ijc.24800 [doi] AB - The aim of our study was to investigate whether myofibroblasts and the chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1)/CCL2 may play a role in hepatocellular carcinoma progression. We observed that hepatic myofibroblast LI90 cells express MCP-1/CCL2 mRNA and secrete this chemokine. Moreover, myofibroblast LI90 cell-conditioned medium (LI90-CM) induces human hepatoma Huh7 cell migration and invasion. These effects are strongly reduced when a MCP-1/CCL2-depleted LI90-CM was used. We showed that MCP-1/CCL2 induces Huh7 cell migration and invasion through its G-protein-coupled receptor CCR2 and, to a lesser extent, through CCR1 only at high MCP-1/CCL2 concentrations. MCP-1/CCL2's chemotactic activities rely on tyrosine phosphorylation of focal adhesion components and depend on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9. Furthermore, we observed that Huh7 cell migration and invasion induced by the chemokine are strongly inhibited by heparin, by beta-D-xyloside treatment of cells and by anti-syndecan-1 and -4 antibodies. Finally, we developed a 3-dimensional coculture model of myofibroblast LI90 and Huh7 cells and demonstrated that MCP-1/CCL2 and its membrane partners, CCR1 and CCR2, may be involved in the formation of mixed hepatoma-myofibroblast spheroids. In conclusion, our data show that human liver myofibroblasts act on hepatoma cells in a paracrine manner to increase their invasiveness and suggest that myofibroblast-derived MCP-1/CCL2 could be involved in the pathogenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma. FAU - Dagouassat, Maylis AU - Dagouassat M AD - INSERM U698, Bioingenierie cardiovasculaire, Universite Paris 13, Bobigny, France. FAU - Suffee, Nadine AU - Suffee N FAU - Hlawaty, Hanna AU - Hlawaty H FAU - Haddad, Oualid AU - Haddad O FAU - Charni, Faten AU - Charni F FAU - Laguillier, Christelle AU - Laguillier C FAU - Vassy, Roger AU - Vassy R FAU - Martin, Loic AU - Martin L FAU - Schischmanoff, Pierre-Olivier AU - Schischmanoff PO FAU - Gattegno, Liliane AU - Gattegno L FAU - Oudar, Olivier AU - Oudar O FAU - Sutton, Angela AU - Sutton A FAU - Charnaux, Nathalie AU - Charnaux N LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Int J Cancer JT - International journal of cancer JID - 0042124 RN - 0 (CCL2 protein, human) RN - 0 (Chemokine CCL2) SB - IM MH - Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/*metabolism/pathology MH - Cell Movement/*physiology MH - Chemokine CCL2/*metabolism MH - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay MH - Fibroblasts/*metabolism MH - Flow Cytometry MH - Humans MH - Liver/cytology/metabolism MH - Liver Neoplasms/*metabolism/pathology MH - Neoplasm Invasiveness/physiopathology MH - RNA Interference MH - Surface Plasmon Resonance EDAT- 2009/07/31 09:00 MHDA- 2010/01/23 06:00 CRDT- 2009/07/31 09:00 PHST- 2009/07/31 09:00 [entrez] PHST- 2009/07/31 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/01/23 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/ijc.24800 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Cancer. 2010 Mar 1;126(5):1095-108. doi: 10.1002/ijc.24800.