Engineered bone for probing organotypic growth and therapy response of prostate cancer tumoroids in vitro

Claudia Paindelli, Nora Navone, Christopher J. Logothetis, Peter Friedl, Eleonora Dondossola

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Abstract

Mechanistic analysis of metastatic prostate cancer (PCa) biology and therapy response critically depends upon clinically relevant three-dimensional (3D) bone-like, organotypic culture. We here combine an engineered bone-mimetic environment (BME) with longitudinal microscopy to test the growth and therapy response of 3D PCa tumoroids. Besides promoting both tumor-cell autonomous and microenvironment-dependent growth in PCa cell lines and patient-derived xenograft cells, the BME enables in vivo-like tumor cell response to therapy, and reveals bone stroma dependent resistance to chemotherapy and BME-targeted localization and induction of cytoxicity by Radium-223. The BME platform will allow the propagation, compound screening and mechanistic dissection of patient-derived bone tumor isolates and applications toward personalized medicine.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)296-304
Number of pages9
JournalBiomaterials
Volume197
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2019

Keywords

  • 3D culture
  • Bone metastasis
  • In vitro engineered bone microenvironment
  • Microscopy
  • Prostate cancer
  • Therapy response

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Bioengineering
  • Ceramics and Composites
  • Biophysics
  • Biomaterials
  • Mechanics of Materials

MD Anderson CCSG core facilities

  • Advanced Technology Genomics Core
  • Research Animal Support Facility
  • Cytogenetics and Cell Authentication Core

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