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Immunology Research Center, Institut Armand-Frappier, Université du Québec, Québec, Canada; and
Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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and ß subunit (2); these proteins are essential for leukocyte
migration, since they bind to proteins of the extracellular matrix,
such as fibronectin and laminin, and to the Ig-like cell surface
proteins that are expressed at the surface of the endothelial and
stromal cells. Since lymphoma cells often express the same
adhesion molecules as their normal counterparts, it has been postulated
that cell adhesion molecules may participate in the dissemination of
lymphoma cells to target organs in the late stages of the metastatic
process by mediating firm cell to cell contact to arrest in the
circulation (3, 4). Studies demonstrating that LFA-1 expression at the
surface of tumor cells correlates with metastatic behavior (5) and
showing the high concentration of circulating ICAM-1 in patients with
malignant lymphoma support the idea that ICAM-1 is involved at some
point in tumor development (6). However, numerous experiments
designed to establish whether LFA-1/ICAM-1 interactions are critical in
lymphoma cell invasiveness were inconclusive. In vivo, Hamann and
Thiele (7) showed that blocking mAbs that are specific for LFA-1 could
not prevent the entry of Moloney-transformed lymphoma cells into the
spleen, while other studies showed that blocking mAbs reduced
significantly but partially the metastatic potential of lymphoma cells
to the liver (8, 9). Using a similar approach, Zahalka et al. (10) have
found that while anti-ß2 mAbs injected i.v. could not block the
infiltration of their lymphoma cells into the lymph nodes, a local s.c.
injection of this Ab near the lymph nodes could, albeit partially,
inhibit lymphoma invasion into these organs. To date, two of the three ligands interacting with LFA-1, ICAM-1 and ICAM-2, are expressed on the vascular endothelium (11, 12, 13). However, the expression of these molecules on the endothelium is very distinct. The expression of ICAM-1 is tightly regulated by the presence of inflammatory cytokines, and therefore occurs mostly in inflamed areas, whereas ICAM-2 is constitutively expressed on endothelial cells and is believed to be the major receptor for lymphocyte LFA-1 in the resting endothelium. These distinct expressions of ICAM-1 and ICAM-2 on vascular endothelial cells along with the inability of anti-ICAM-1 to block lymphoma invasiveness has led to the hypothesis that ICAM-2, rather than ICAM-1, may be operative in lymphoma invasiveness (14). However, ICAM-1 appears to be expressed at appreciable levels in the absence of inflammation in some tissues, and it is noteworthy that these tissues are the preferred target sites for lymphoma metastasis (14, 15).
The idea that a blockage of lymphoma dissemination by blocking mAbs is due to their ability to inhibit the homing of tumor cells to target organs has recently been challenged by studies that have demonstrated a lack of correlation between the expression of cell adhesion molecules, homing, and the metastatic potential of tumor cells. The blocking of integrin function by disintegrins does not seem to affect the extravasation and homing of melanoma cells; rather, this blocking affected their subsequent tumor growth (16). In addition, the hemogenous spreading as well as the peripheral node invasion of lymphoma-derived leukemic cells may occur independently of the expression of the lymphocyte homing receptor (15). Furthermore, in vivo studies using intravital videomicroscopy have shown that most tumor cells entering the circulation extravasate efficiently into tissues regardless of their metastatic potential (17, 18). More recently, we have shown that the critical step for the successful metastasis of the lymphoma cell was determined in the final steps of the disseminating process, namely after homing (19). The lack of correlation between the ability of a tumor cell to migrate specifically to a target organ and its ability to form a tumor in this organ raise the question again of whether cell adhesion molecules are essential for the dissemination of lymphoid tumors to peripheral organs.
The effect of the mutation or inactivation of a targeted gene is the most definitive and comprehensive assay for the biologic role of that gene in the context of a living organism. Therefore, we investigated whether the absence of ICAM-1 could prevent the dissemination of LFA-1-expressing lymphoma cells to peripheral organs. Using ICAM-1-deficient mice, we show that the expression of ICAM-1 by the host plays a critical role in lymphoma dissemination in the liver, spleen, and kidneys following i.v. inoculation of malignant T lymphoma cells. Furthermore, we found that resistance to lymphoma metastasis in these mice is manifested at stages that are subsequent to homing and extravasation in target organs.
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Mutant ICAM-1-deficient mice were generated by gene targeting in 129-derived (H-2b) J1 embryonic stem cells that had been injected into C57BL/6 (H-2b) blastocysts (20). This strain carries a mutation in the fourth exon of the ICAM-1 gene. A second strain of ICAM-1 mutant mice (ICAM1tm1Bay) that was backcrossed onto a C57BL/6 background was obtained from The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME). Mice of this strain carry a deletional mutation in the fifth exon of the ICAM-1 gene (21). Mice were age- and sex-matched with their wild-type (wt)3 mates. All mouse colonies were maintained in the specific pathogen-free animal facility at the Institut Armand-Frappier.
Antibodies
mAbs were purified from hybridoma culture supernatants by
chromatography on protein G-Sepharose (Pharmacia, Piscataway, NJ). The
following mAbs were used: M17/4.2 (anti-mouse LFA-1) (22), PS/2
(anti-mouse
4 chain) (23), 145-2C11 (anti-mouse
CD3
chain) (24), and YN1/1.7.4 (anti-mouse ICAM-1) (25). The
fluoresceination and biotinylation of Abs were carried out using
standard protocols. FITC-conjugated anti-mouse ICAM-2 (clone 3C4)
was obtained from PharMingen (San Diego, CA). This mAb reacts against
the murine ICAM-2 molecule (26). The streptavidin (SA)-RED670 conjugate
was obtained from Life Technologies (Grand Island, NY).
Phycoerythrin-conjugated anti-mouse CD4 was obtained from
Boehringer Mannheim (Laval, Canada). FITC-conjugated anti-CD8 was
obtained from Becton Dickinson (Mountain View, CA).
Flow cytometry
Cells were stained at 4°C and washed with PBS containing 0.5% BSA and 0.2% sodium azide. Before staining, cells were incubated with 10 µg/ml of human IgG (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) for 20 min at 4°C to block nonspecific binding. Next, fluorochrome- or biotin-labeled mAbs were added at appropriate concentrations and incubated for another 20 min. Cells were subsequently washed four times with PBS containing 0.5% BSA and 0.2% sodium azide. For indirect staining with SA-RED670, cells were washed three times following the reaction with the first mAb and then incubated for 20 min on ice with the fluorescent conjugate. The results shown are representative of at least three independent experiments. Flow cytometric analyses were performed on a Coulter XL-MCL flow cytometer (Hialeah, FL). Analyses were conducted on a logarithmic scale on 1 to 5 x 105 events.
T cell lymphoma invasiveness
The malignant 164T2 T lymphoma line was obtained from an in vitro culture of radiation-induced thymic lymphoma in C57BL/Ka mice (27). The C57BL/Ka mice were originally derived from a C57BL/6 colony maintained at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) by Dr. Henry Kaplan. To induce tumor spreading to target organs, 1 to 5 x 105 malignant T lymphoma cells were injected i.v. via the tail vein to 6- to 10-wk-old mutant and wt mice. Animals were observed at regular intervals for clinical signs of lymphoma development, including dyspnea, runting, and splenomegaly. Unless otherwise indicated, all animals were sacrificed at 6 to 8 wk postinjection and examined for the presence of lymphoid tumors at necropsy. Mice were examined macroscopically, and their kidneys, liver, spleen, lungs, and thymus were harvested and fixed in 10% formalin for histologic examination.
In vivo migration assays
The migration of 164T2 lymphoma cells was analyzed using standard indium-111 labeling of lymphoma cells as described previously (19). Briefly, 107 cells were labeled with 10 mCi of indium-111 in 0.5 ml RPMI 1640 for 15 min at room temperature. The cells were washed four times with RPMI 1640 containing serum and resuspended in PBS. The viability of the labeled cells was >95% as determined by trypan blue exclusion. Each mouse was injected i.v. with 106 cells (0.5 to 1 x 106 cpm). Animals were sacrificed at various times (five mice for each time point), and the kidneys, spleen, liver, and thymus as well as heparinized blood samples were recovered. The total radioactivity in circulating blood was estimated in 400-µl aliquots of blood, assuming a total volume of 2 ml of circulating blood per mouse.
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4 integrins inhibits lymphoma metastasis without
affecting homing (29) and that the very late Ag-2 adhesion
molecule is involved in rhabdomyosarcoma cell metastasis during the
migration through the perivascular tissue support this idea (30). The
metastatic potential of lymphoma cells may be affected by their
susceptibility to CTL and NK cell lysis in vivo. It is unlikely,
however, that these effector functions are responsible for the
resistance of ICAM-1-deficient mice to lymphoma metastasis, because: 1)
CTLs from ICAM-1 mutant mice are not hindered as responders when
compared with lymphocytes from normal mice (20); 2) in contrast to
YAC-1 lymphoma cells, the 164T2 lymphoma cells are not sensitive to NK
cell lysis, at least when tested in a standard in vitro cytotoxicity
assay (data not shown); and 3) we found that the splenic NK cell
activity in ICAM-1-deficient mice is not significantly different from
that observed in normal C57BL/6 mice (our unpublished
observations). Alternatively, it is possible that cell to cell
interactions between tumor cells and host stromal cells (endothelial
and fibroblastic cells, macrophages, etc.) via ICAM-1 regulate the
expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and tissue inhibitors of
MMP, both of which are abundantly expressed in malignant lymphomas (31, 32). MMPs have been shown to play a crucial role in the invasive
behavior of normal and tumor cells (33), whereas tissue inhibitors of
MMP, whose expression often mirrors that of MMPs, can promote cell
growth under certain conditions (34). In vitro, we have recently found
that the LFA-1/ICAM-1 but not the LFA-1/ICAM-2 interaction is involved
in the induction of MMP-9 expression during the adhesion of 164T2
lymphoma cells to endothelial cells (35). Thus, it is possible that
contact between lymphoma cells and the vascular endothelium via
LFA-1/ICAM-1 interactions induces the expression of MMP-9 which, in
turn, allows lymphoma cells to migrate through the extracellular
matrix to reach the metastatic sites in which they grow into secondary
tumors. Alternatively, the interaction of LFA-1/ICAM-1 may also mediate
interactions with stromal cells that promote the growth of lymphoma
cells or resistance to the antitumoral immune response elaborated by
the host. The migration of lymphocytes or lymphoma cells involves a
complex cascade of intracellular activation events that are
thought to depend upon integrin-mediated adhesion to endothelial cells.
Adhesion molecules that are known to support firm adhesion to the
vascular endothelium have been proposed as candidate molecules that
could engage transmigration processes and the survival of lymphocytes
into tissues (36, 37). These possibilities are now under investigation
in our laboratory. The accumulation of T lymphoma cells in specific target organs, compared with the transient passage into the lungs, is in agreement with previous studies showing that the liver, spleen, and kidneys are the preferred target sites for lymphoma metastasis (14, 15). This pattern of migration has also been observed with circulating lymphoblasts and activated mature lymphocytes, which show significant affinity for the liver and lungs, although retention in the lungs appears to be transient for most circulating blasts (38). Since ICAM-1 is not essential in the homing of T lymphoma cells to specific target organs, one might suppose that other adhesion molecules might be involved during that process. For instance, the ubiquitous and constitutive expression of ICAM-2 on the vascular endothelium has led to the suggestion that ICAM-2, rather than ICAM-1, would be the likely receptor used for homing of lymphoma cells if LFA-1 is involved in lymphoma invasiveness. Other adhesion molecules of the integrin and selectin families may also be implicated. Alternatively, differential responses among cancer cells to organ-specific soluble factors and/or local concentrations of specific chemoattractants may also explain the differences observed in the migration pattern. The availability of several genetically engineered KO mouse models will certainly be helpful in elucidating whether other cell adhesion molecules are involved in the homing of T lymphoma cells in our model.
Our data showed that the development of LFA-1-negative carcinoma was identical in normal and ICAM-1-deficient mice, with a 100% incidence, suggesting that resistance was specific to LFA-1-bearing lymphoma cell lines. Whether all LFA-1-bearing lymphoma cell lines are also dependent upon the presence of ICAM-1 by the host remains to be tested. In the case of T cell lymphomas, we have observed that the resistance of ICAM-1 mutant mice was not unique to 164T2 lymphoma cells, since these mice were also resistant to the metastasis induced by i.v. injection of 267 T lymphoma cells, another malignant T lymphoma cell line. Other models of T cell lymphoma are currently being tested. It will also be interesting to test whether B cell lymphomas also require ICAM-1 to disseminate. However, there are very few in vivo models of B cell lymphomas that are H-2b histocompatible. We are currently generating a panel of syngeneic B leukemic cell lines that could eventually be tested in our model, the ICAM-1-deficient mouse.
In summary, we show that genetic ablation of ICAM-1 confers resistance to lymphoma cell metastasis in peripheral organs, and that lymphoma metastasis is controlled by ICAM-1 at a stage that is subsequent to homing to target organs. These results point to postextravasational events as a focus of future investigation on metastasis control.
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2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Yves St-Pierre, Immunology Research Center, Institut Armand-Frappier, P.O. Box 100, Laval, Québec, Canada H7N 4Z3. E-mail address: ![]()
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: wt, wild-type; SA, streptavidin; KO, knockout; MMP, matrix metalloproteinase. ![]()
Received for publication February 11, 1998. Accepted for publication April 27, 1998.
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