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- Title
How Much Do You Fuse? A Comparison of Cell Fusion Assays in a Breast Cancer Model.
- Authors
Sieler, Mareike; Dörnen, Jessica; Dittmar, Thomas
- Abstract
Cell fusion is a biological process that is crucial for the development and homeostasis of different tissues, but it is also pathophysiologically associated with tumor progression and malignancy. The investigation of cell fusion processes is difficult because there is no standardized marker. Many studies therefore use different systems to observe and quantify cell fusion in vitro and in vivo. The comparability of the results must be critically questioned, because both the experimental procedure and the assays differ between studies. The comparability of the fluorescence-based fluorescence double reporter (FDR) and dual split protein (DSP) assay was investigated as part of this study, in which general conditions were kept largely constant. In order to be able to induce both a high and a low cell fusion rate, M13SV1 breast epithelial cells were modified with regard to the expression level of the fusogenic protein Syncytin-1 and its receptor ASCT2 and were co-cultivated for 72 h with different breast cancer cell lines. A high number of fused cells was found in co-cultures with Syncytin-1-overexpressing M13SV1 cells, but differences between the assays were also observed. This shows that the quantification of cell fusion events in particular is highly dependent on the assay selected, but the influence of fusogenic proteins can be visualized very well.
- Subjects
CELL fusion; BREAST cancer; BREAST; CANCER invasiveness; EPITHELIAL cells; HOMEOSTASIS
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024, Vol 25, Issue 11, p5668
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms25115668