PMID- 22294205 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120904 LR - 20220408 IS - 1528-3658 (Electronic) IS - 1076-1551 (Print) IS - 1076-1551 (Linking) VI - 18 IP - 1 DP - 2012 May 9 TI - Microglial stimulation of glioblastoma invasion involves epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R) signaling. PG - 519-27 LID - 10.2119/molmed.2011.00217 [doi] AB - Glioblastoma multiforme is a deadly cancer for which current treatment options are limited. The ability of glioblastoma tumor cells to infiltrate the surrounding brain parenchyma critically limits the effectiveness of current treatments. We investigated how microglia, the resident macrophages of the brain, stimulate glioblastoma cell invasion. We first examined the ability of normal microglia from C57Bl/6J mice to stimulate GL261 glioblastoma cell invasion in vitro. We found that microglia stimulate the invasion of GL261 glioblastoma cells by approximately eightfold in an in vitro invasion assay. Pharmacological inhibition of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) strongly inhibited microglia-stimulated invasion. Furthermore, blockade of colony stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R) signaling using ribonucleic acid (RNA) interference or pharmacological inhibitors completely inhibited microglial enhancement of glioblastoma invasion. GL261 cells were found to constitutively secrete CSF-1, the levels of which were unaffected by epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation, EGFR inhibition or coculture with microglia. CSF-1 only stimulated microglia invasion, whereas EGF only stimulated glioblastoma cell migration, demonstrating a synergistic interaction between these two cell types. Finally, using PLX3397 (a CSF-1R inhibitor that can cross the blood-brain barrier) in live animals, we discovered that blockade of CSF-1R signaling in vivo reduced the number of tumor-associated microglia and glioblastoma invasion. These data indicate that glioblastoma and microglia interactions mediated by EGF and CSF-1 can enhance glioblastoma invasion and demonstrate the possibility of inhibiting glioblastoma invasion by targeting glioblastoma-associated microglia via inhibition of the CSF-1R. FAU - Coniglio, Salvatore J AU - Coniglio SJ AD - Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA. salvatore.coniglio@einstein.yu.edu FAU - Eugenin, Eliseo AU - Eugenin E FAU - Dobrenis, Kostantin AU - Dobrenis K FAU - Stanley, E Richard AU - Stanley ER FAU - West, Brian L AU - West BL FAU - Symons, Marc H AU - Symons MH FAU - Segall, Jeffrey E AU - Segall JE LA - eng GR - P01 CA100324/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 MH096625/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 CA13330/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA25604/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - 11-0135/AICR_/Worldwide Cancer Research/United Kingdom GR - P01 CA 100324/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 CA013330/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20120509 PL - England TA - Mol Med JT - Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) JID - 9501023 RN - 62229-50-9 (Epidermal Growth Factor) RN - 81627-83-0 (Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (EGFR protein, mouse) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (ErbB Receptors) RN - EC 2.7.10.1 (Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain Neoplasms/*metabolism/pathology MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Cell Proliferation MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chemotaxis MH - Epidermal Growth Factor/metabolism MH - ErbB Receptors/*metabolism MH - Glioblastoma/*metabolism/pathology MH - Humans MH - Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor/metabolism MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Microglia/*physiology MH - Neoplasm Invasiveness MH - Receptor, Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism PMC - PMC3356419 EDAT- 2012/02/02 06:00 MHDA- 2012/09/05 06:00 PMCR- 2012/01/27 CRDT- 2012/02/02 06:00 PHST- 2011/06/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/01/26 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2012/02/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/02/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/09/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/01/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - molmed.2011.00217 [pii] AID - 11_00217_coniglio [pii] AID - 10.2119/molmed.2011.00217 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Mol Med. 2012 May 9;18(1):519-27. doi: 10.2119/molmed.2011.00217.