Fig. 1. Impact of macrophage secretomes on the migration of ovarian cancer cells.
a Migration of 5 different cultured patient-specific HGSC tumor cells (OCMI OC_37, 38, 58, 92, 108) was analyzed using conditioned media of ascites-derived TAM from 3 different patients (TAM_169, 170, 171) as chemoattractant in a transwell assay format. Background migration was measured in the absence of any attractant (Ctr−). Data were normalized to 1 for FCS-induced migration (Ctr+) in each OCMI cell line (a). b Exemplary microscopic pictures showing migrated OCMI cells (OC_ 38, 58, 92) in response to conditioned media of TAM_170 and FCS (Ctr+) as well as background control without chemoattractant (Ctr−). c, d Conditioned media of m1 (induced by LPS+IFNγ), m2c (induced by IL-10), and asc-MDM (induced by ascites) from 6 donors were applied as attractants for migration of OCMI cell line OC_58. The corresponding data for the phenotypes of MDM differentiation are shown in Supplementary Fig. S1. Migration is expressed relative to FCS-induced migration (c) and relative to migration induced by TAM-like MDM (d). e Transwell migration format using OCMI cells (OC_58) pretreated with conditioned media of m1-MDM, m2c-MDM, and asc-MDM (3 different donors) for 17 h prior to analysis of tumor migration using FCS as chemoattractant for 2 h. As controls, untreated tumor cells were allowed to migrate in the presence (Ctr+) and absence of FCS (Ctr−). For details, see “Materials/subjects and methods.” Migration of pretreated tumor cells was expressed relative to untreated cells in the presence of FCS. Horizontal bars show the mean. Standard deviations are given. Asterisks indicate p values determined by two-sided, paired t test. *p < 0.05, ***p < 0.001.
