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M2 tumor-associated macrophages produce interleukin-17 to suppress oxaliplatin-induced apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma
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Abstract
Bin Guo1,*, Leilei Li1,*, Jiapei Guo1,*, Aidong Liu1, Jinghua Wu1, Haixin Wang3, Jun Shi1, Dequan Pang1 and Qing Cao2
1North China University of Science and Technology Affiliated Hospital, Tangshan, Hebei, China
2Hebei Medical University Second Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
3Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Tangshan City, Tangshan, Hebei, China
*These authors contributed equally to this work
Correspondence to:
Jinghua Wu, email: [email protected]
Keywords: hepatocellular carcinoma, M2 tumor-associated macrophages, interleukin-17, chaperone-mediated autophagy, cyclin D1
Received: September 22, 2016 Accepted: May 07, 2017 Published: May 18, 2017
ABSTRACT
M2 macrophages are a major component of the tumor microenvironment and are important promoters of tumor occurrence and progression. In this study, we detected large numbers of M2 macrophages in hepatocellular carcinoma tissues using immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence. Moreover, upon oxaliplatin treatment, the M2 macrophages overexpressed interleukin-17, an important inflammatory cytokine, and thus inhibited oxaliplatin-induced apoptosis. By knocking down the interleukin-17 receptor and lysosome-associated membrane protein 2A (a key protein in chaperone-mediated autophagy) in hepatocellular carcinoma cells, we found that interleukin-17 stimulated chaperone-mediated autophagy, which further suppressed apoptosis upon oxaliplatin treatment. Chaperone-mediated autophagy induced tolerance to oxaliplatin treatment by reducing cyclin D1 expression; thus, cyclin D1 overexpression stimulated oxaliplatin-induced apoptosis. In addition, cyclin D1 expression was inhibited by interleukin-17, but increased when the interleukin-17 receptor was knocked down. Thus M2 macrophages in the hepatocellular carcinoma microenvironment generate large amounts of interleukin-17, which suppress oxaliplatin-induced tumor cell apoptosis by activating chaperone-mediated autophagy and in turn reducing cyclin D1 expression. These findings may facilitate the development of novel therapeutic strategies for chemorefractory liver cancer.
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