Metastatic Brain Tumors Disrupt the Blood-Brain Barrier and Alter Lipid Metabolism by Inhibiting Expression of the Endothelial Cell Fatty Acid Transporter Mfsd2a

Scientific Reports
Shweta TiwaryJoseph H McCarty

Abstract

Disruption of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) by cancer cells is linked to metastatic tumor initiation and progression; however, the pathways that drive these events remain poorly understood. Here, we have developed novel patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of brain metastases that recapitulate pathological growth features found in original patient samples, thus allowing for analysis of BBB disruption by tumor cells. We report that the BBB is selectively disrupted in brain metastases, in part, via inhibition of the endothelial cell-expressed docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) transporter, major facilitator superfamily domain 2a (Mfsd2a). Loss of Mfsd2a expression in the tumor endothelium results in enhanced BBB leakage, but reduced DHA transport and altered lipid metabolism within metastases. Mfsd2a expression in normal cerebral endothelial cells is cooperatively regulated by TGFβ and bFGF signaling pathways, and these pathways are pathologically diminished in the brain metastasis endothelium. These results not only reveal a fundamental pathway underlying BBB disruption by metastatic cancer cells, but also suggest that restoring DHA metabolism in the brain tumor microenvironment may be a novel therapeutic strategy to block metastatic ...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
xenograft
transgenic
ELISA
PCR
dissection

Software Mentioned

Expression Analysis / Q2
Olympus FLUOVIEW
Ensembl
Olympus
Pipeline for RNA Sequencing Data Analysis ( PRADA )
ImageJ

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