Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Chemokine profiling of melanoma-macrophage crosstalk identifies CCL8 and CCL15 as prognostic factors in cutaneous melanoma
doi: 10.1101/2023.10.04.560856
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Serum deprivation survival assays of BLM, A375 and Skmel-103 melanoma cell lines in response to increasing concentra-tions of CCL8 and CCL15 chemokines (ng/ml), and to FCS 1%, as positive control. Mean ±SD optical density (OD) values, are shown (n= 4). (B) Proliferation response of melanoma cell lines to 200 ng/ml exogenous CCL8 and CCL15, and to FCS 1% as positive control. Mean ±SD percentages of BrdU+ nuclei, are shown (n= 3). (C) BLM spheroids embedded in 3D-collagen and allowed to invade for 72 h in the presence of increasing concentrations of exogenous CCL8 and CCL15, as indicated (ng/ml). Functional chemotactic axes were identified by using neutralizing antibodies against CCR1, CCR3, CCR5 and their corresponding control isotypes (5 μg/ml). Mean ±SD fold-invasion values, are shown (n= 3-6). Images show representative collagen-embedded spheroids showing basal and CCL15 stimulated invasion. Scale bar, 150 μm. (D) Immunoblots showing CCR1, CCR3 and CCR5 expression in whole-lysates of three melanoma cell lines and isolated CD14+ monocytes. (E) Serum deprivation survival and 3D-collagen invasion assays of monocytes in response to 100 ng/ml exogenous chemokines, including FCS 1%, as positive control (n= 5 donors). Significant differences to the respective untreated controls, are shown (*p< 0.05, paired t-test).
Article Snippet: Serum-deprived media ±recombinant human CCL8 or CCL15 (R&D Systems, Minnneapolis, MN) and ±5 μg/ml neutralizing antibodies for CCR1, CCR3 and CCR5 (supplementary material, Table S1) were added on top of the gels, and spheroids were allowed to invade for 72 hours.
Techniques: Positive Control, Functional Assay, Control, Western Blot, Expressing, Isolation