Remodeling of the Collagen Matrix in Aging Skin Promotes Melanoma Metastasis and Affects Immune Cell Motility
Published OnlineFirst October 2, 2018; DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-18-0193 RESEARCH ARTICLE Remodeling of the Collagen Matrix in Aging Skin Promotes Melanoma Metastasis and Affects Immune Cell Motility Amanpreet Kaur1,2,3, Brett L. Ecker2, Stephen M. Douglass2, Curtis H. Kugel III2, Marie R. Webster2, Filipe V. Almeida2, Rajasekharan Somasundaram2, James Hayden2, Ehsan Ban3, Hossein Ahmadzadeh3, Janusz Franco-Barraza4, Neelima Shah4, Ian A. Mellis3, Frederick Keeney2, Andrew Kossenkov2, Hsin-Yao Tang2, Xiangfan Yin2, Qin Liu2, Xiaowei Xu5, Mitchell Fane2, Patricia Brafford2, Meenhard Herlyn2, David W. Speicher2, Jennifer A. Wargo6, Michael T. Tetzlaff6, Lauren E. Haydu6, Arjun Raj3, Vivek Shenoy3, Edna Cukierman4, and Ashani T. Weeraratna2 ABSTRACT Physical changes in skin are among the most visible signs of aging. We found that young dermal fibroblasts secrete high levels of extracellular matrix (ECM) con- stituents, including proteoglycans, glycoproteins, and cartilage-linking proteins. The most abundantly secreted was HAPLN1, a hyaluronic and proteoglycan link protein. HAPLN1 was lost in aged fibro- blasts, resulting in a more aligned ECM that promoted metastasis of melanoma cells. Reconstituting HAPLN1 inhibited metastasis in an aged microenvironment, in 3-D skin reconstruction models, and in vivo. Intriguingly, aged fibroblast-derived matrices had the opposite effect on the migration of T cells, inhibiting their motility. HAPLN1 treatment of aged fibroblasts restored motility of mononu- clear immune cells, while impeding that of polymorphonuclear immune cells, which in turn affected regulatory T-cell recruitment. These data suggest that although age-related physical changes in the ECM can promote tumor cell motility, they may adversely affect the motility of some immune cells, resulting in an overall change in the immune microenvironment.
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