Breast Cancer Cells Invade the Lung
Breast Cancer Cells Invade the Lung
Submitted by Tsukasa Shibue in the Weinberg Laboratory at the Whitehead Institute
MIT Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute, Koch Institute at MIT
Tsukasa Shibue
Weinberg Laboratory, Whitehead Institute
Deconvolution Microscopy
"I am studying the cell-biological behavior of cancer cells after metastatic dissemination into foreign tissues. Aggressive mouse mammary carcinoma cells (D2A1) were engineered to express a fluorescent fusion protein containing integrin alpha5 (green). These cells were injected into mice through the tail-vein and allowed to disseminate within the lung tissue. The formation of abundant, integrin alpha5-containing plaques indicated that the D2A1 cells can interact with the extracellular matrix components of the lung parenchyma in a way enabling the activation of adhesion-associated signaling events."