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(American Journal of Pathology. 2006;168:1889-1897.)
© 2006 American Society for Investigative Pathology
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2006.050843

Species-Specific Fibroblasts Required for Triggering Invasiveness of Partially Transformed Oral Keratinocytes

Daniela Elena Costea^*, Keerthi Kulasekara^*, Evelyn Neppelberg, Anne Christine Johannessen^* and Olav Karsten Vintermyr

From the Departments of Oral Pathology and Forensic Odontology,^* Oral Surgery and Oral Medicine, and Pathology, The Gade Institute, Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

This study tests the hypothesis that invasion of partially transformed keratinocytes is initiated by diffusible, proinvasive signals provided by species-specific fibroblasts. In vitro organotypic cultures of neoplastic human oral mucosa were constructed by growing a partially transformed, nontumorigenic keratinocytic cell line isolated from a dysplastic human oral lesion (DOK-ECACC94122104) on top of various types of connective tissue equivalents. Cultured tissues were analyzed by histomorphometry (depth and area of invasion: D_inv, A_inv) and immunohistochemistry. Presence of human fibroblasts in the matrix induced a local invasion of DOK (D_inv = 95.6 ± 7.1 µm, A_inv = 45.8 ± 3.5%). Minimal invasion (P < 0.05) was observed when DOK grew on simple collagen matrix (D_inv = 14.1 ± 2.1 µm, A_inv = 3.7 ± 0.8%) or matrices containing fibroblasts from mouse (D_inv = 11.5 ± 4.0 µm, A_inv = 4.3 ± 1.0%) or rat (D_inv = 15.6 ± 1.2 µm, A_inv = 6.1 ± 0.5%). In these cultures, local invasion could be induced by the presence of human fibroblasts in a bottom layer of the collagen matrix (P < 0.05) or by conditioned medium from organotypic cultures of DOK on human fibroblast-containing matrix (P < 0.05) but not by conditioned medium from human fibroblast monocultures (P > 0.05). Deposition of human collagen IV was observed at epithelial-matrix interface only when DOK behaved invasively. In conclusion, invasion of partially transformed oral keratinocytes was triggered by keratinocyte-induced fibroblast-derived diffusible factor(s) in a species-specific manner and associated with de novo synthesis of collagen IV.

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