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    Investigation of Breast Cancer Cells and Phospholipid Cell Membrane Interactions
    (İzmir Tepecik Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, 2019) Yıldız, Ahu Arslan
    Objective: Circulating tumor cells have an important role in the pathogenesis of metastasis. Metastasis occurs through few steps including arrival of circulating tumor cells to distant tissue and organs, their adherence to the target tissue, and then formation of a new tumor. To understand the mechanism of this process it is necessary to investigate the interaction of cancer cells with other molecules and cells of the target tissue, and most importantly interaction with lipids forming the cellular membrane. Methods: To better understand the process of cancer cell adhesion onto lipid membranes and the ionic interactions that are involved in cell adherence, surfaces functionalized with tethered bilayer lipid membrane (tBLM) were utilized in this work as an experimental platform. Either lipid surfaces functionalized with cationic POEPC: PC or anionic POPS: PC fwere examined to observe the ionic interaction of charged phospholipid membrane and MDA-MB231 breast cancer cells. Results: Adhesions of MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells and NIH-3T3 mouse fibroblast cells to positively charged POEPC: PC lipid surfaces,and their dissemination was observed during examinations using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) method. The results were further confirmed with cell viability and proliferation studies that shows cationic POEPC: PC lipid surfaces were able to facilitate and increase the cell adhesion. Conclusion: These results reveal the cationic phospholipid structures favour the enhanced cancer cell adhesion.