Morphogenesis and oncogenesis of MCF-10A mammary epithelial acini grown in three-dimensional basement membrane cultures
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...To address this, we used BM-crosslinked polyacrylamide (PA) gels (BM gel) with calibrated elastic moduli of 150, 400, 675, 1050, and R5000 Pa. Similar to MECs inside a 3D BM (3D BM; Weaver et al., 2002) or on top of a thick BM overlaid with BM (3D over BM; Debnath et al., 2003), by 16–20 days MECs on a compliant PA BM gel overlaid with BM (3D BM gel) formed growtharrested acini with cell-cell localized β-catenin, basally polarized β4 integrin, and apical-lateral cortical actin and assembled an endogenous LN-5 BM (Figure 2C)....
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...C: Phase contrast microscopy and confocal IF images of MEC colonies on 3D BM gels of increasing stiffness (150–5000 Pa), showing colony morphology after 20 days (top); β-catenin before (large image) and after triton extraction (inset; see also Supplemental Data) (green), costained with β4 integrin (large image) or E-cadherin (inset) (red; middle); and actin (green), costained with LN-5 (BM; red; bottom) and nuclei (blue)....
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...The HMT3522 and MCF10A MECs and NIH 3T3 cells were maintained as described (Debnath et al., 2003; Wang et al., 1998; Yeung et al., 2005)....
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...D: Confocal IF images of β1 integrin adhesions (green) in MECs in BM/COL I gels of 175 and 1200 Pa for 16 days (3D BM; soft versus stiff), or 70% confluent monolayers on BM-coated polystyrene (2D stiff), costained for FAKpY397, FAKpY861, vinculin (red), or actin (red) and nuclei (blue)....
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...…150, 400, 675, 1050, and R5000 Pa. Similar to MECs inside a 3D BM (3D BM; Weaver et al., 2002) or on top of a thick BM overlaid with BM (3D over BM; Debnath et al., 2003), by 16–20 days MECs on a compliant PA BM gel overlaid with BM (3D BM gel) formed growtharrested acini with cell-cell localized…...
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...Three-dimensional culture of MCF10A cells The 3D culture of MCF10A cells was done as described (Debnath et al. 2003)....
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