Journal: Clinical and Translational Medicine
Article Title: Reciprocal crosstalk between Th17 and mesothelial cells promotes metastasis‐associated adhesion of ovarian cancer cells
doi: 10.1002/ctm2.1604
Figure Lengend Snippet: IL‐17A and TNF perturb mesothelial monolayer integrity and promote adhesion of tumor cells. (A) Phalloidin staining of mesothelial cells treated with rhIL‐17A, rhTNF or both cytokines for 96 h. Medium and treatment were renewed after 48 h. Representative pictures are shown. (B, C) Quantification of ellipticity (B; Imaris software) and sphericity (C; ImageJ software) of experiments shown in panel A. Four random images were analyzed for each treatment condition and n = 4 patients. (D) ZO‐1 (green) and Hoechst (blue) staining of mesothelial cells treated as in panel A. The pictures are representative of three experiments with cells from different patients. (E) Quantification of ZO‐1 area at cell‐cell contacts with ImageJ software and the Labkit plugin. Three random images for each treatment condition were analyzed and n = 3 patients. (F) Schematic overview of the experimental design of the tumor cell adhesion assay. Mesothelial cells were seeded on 96‐well plates coated with collagen I, stimulated with rhIL‐17, rhTNF or both cytokines, and cultured for 4–5 days till formation of a dense monolayer. Subsequently, wells were washed and CellTracker Green‐stained tumor cells were added for 6 h. (G) Pictures of adherent OC‐tumor cells treated as described in panel F. Representative images are shown. (H) Quantification of adhesion assays as in panel G. Attached tumor cells were quantified by measuring the relative area covered by fluorescently labeled tumor cells using ImageJ software (n = 3 patients). The bar plots show the mean ±SD for biological replicates.*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ****p<0.0001 were determined in panels B, E and H by one‐way ANOVA followed by Dunnett's multiple comparison test, in panel C by Kruskal‐Wallis test followed by Dunn's multiple comparison test: ns: not significant.
Article Snippet: After deparaffinization, rehydration and antigen retrieval at pH 6, the following antibodies were used for double staining: anti‐hCD4 (Agilent, IR649), anti‐hRORγt (LS‐B4659‐100, Biozol, Eiching, Germany), and anti‐hIL‐17A (MAB3171, Biotechne, Minneapolis, USA).
Techniques: Staining, Software, Cell Adhesion Assay, Cell Culture, Labeling, Comparison