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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Multicellular Human Gastric-Cancer Spheroids Mimic the Glycosylation Phenotype of Gastric Carcinomas.

Meritxell Balmaña, Stefan Mereiter, Francisca Diniz, Tália Feijão, Cristina C Barrias, Celso A Reis

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Meritxell Balmañai3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal. mbalmana@ipatimup.pt.
Stefan Mereiteri3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal. smereiter@ipatimup.pt.
Francisca Dinizi3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal. fdiniz@ipatimup.pt.ORCID 0000-0001-6539-7318
Tália Feijãoi3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal. taliaf@ibmc.up.pt.
Cristina C Barriasi3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal. ccbarrias@ineb.up.pt.
Celso A Reisi3S-Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal. celsor@ipatimup.pt.ORCID 0000-0002-0286-6639
Universidade do Porto · PT

Funding

European Regional Development Fund NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000029Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia PTDC/BBB-EBI/0567/2014Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UID/BIM/04293/2013Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 748880Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors-COMPETE POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007274Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors-COMPETE POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016585
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular glycosylation plays a pivotal role in several molecular mechanisms controlling cell⁻cell recognition, communication, and adhesion. Thus, aberrant glycosylation has a major impact on the acquisition of malignant features in the tumor progression of patients. To mimic these in vivo features, an innovative high-throughput 3D spheroid culture methodology has been developed for gastric cancer cells. The assessment of cancer cell spheroids' physical characteristics, such as size, morphology and solidity, as well as the impact of glycosylation inhibitors on spheroid formation was performed applying automated image analysis. A detailed evaluation of key glycans and glycoproteins displayed by the gastric cancer spheroids and their counterpart cells cultured under conventional 2D conditions was performed. Our results show that, by applying 3D cell culture approaches, the model cell lines represented the differentiation features observed in the original tumors and the cellular glycocalix underwent striking changes, displaying increased expression of cancer-associated glycan antigens and mucin MUC1, ultimately better simulating the glycosylation phenotype of the gastric tumor.

Indexed as

CarcinomaCell CommunicationCell Culture TechniquesCell DifferentiationCell Line, TumorGlycosylationHumansSpheroids, CellularStomach Neoplasms3D cell culturegastric cancerglycosylationMUC1spheroidsswainsoninetunicamycin

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PMID30380716
PMCPMC6278543
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