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- Title
Netrin-1 acts as a survival factor for aggressive neuroblastoma.
- Authors
Delloye-Bourgeois, Céline; Fitamant, Julien; Paradisi, Andrea; Cappellen, David; Douc-Rasy, Setha; Raquin, Marie-Anne; Stupack, Dwayne; Nakagawara, Akira; Rousseau, Raphaël; Combaret, Valérie; Puisieux, Alain; Valteau-Couanet, Dominique; Bénard, Jean; Bernet, Agnès; Mehlen, Patrick
- Abstract
Neuroblastoma (NB), the most frequent solid tumor of early childhood, is diagnosed as a disseminated disease in >60% of cases, and several lines of evidence support the resistance to apoptosis as a prerequisite for NB progression. We show that autocrine production of netrin-1, a multifunctional laminin-related molecule, conveys a selective advantage in tumor growth and dissemination in aggressive NB, as it blocks the proapoptotic activity of the UNC5H netrin-1 dependence receptors. We show that such netrin-1 up-regulation is a potential marker for poor prognosis in stage 4S and, more generally, in NB stage 4 diagnosed infants. Moreover, we propose that interference with the netrin-1 autocrine loop in malignant neuroblasts could represent an alternative therapeutic strategy, as disruption of this loop triggers in vitro NB cell death and inhibits NB metastasis in avian and mouse models.
- Publication
The Journal of experimental medicine, 2009, Vol 206, Issue 4, p833
- ISSN
1540-9538
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1084/jem.20082299