Valérie Le Morvan, Pierre Nassoy, Patricia Legoix, Céline Pangault, Simon Latour, Pierre Soubeyran, Laurence Bresson-Bepoldin, Frédéric Mourcin, Kevin Alessandri, Elise Dessauge, Martina Prochazkova-Carlotti, Julien Saint-Vanne, Lea Broca-Brisson, Nelson Hélaine, Karin Tarte, Jean-Philippe Merlio, Sylvain Baulande, Laurent Deleurme, Isabelle Mahouche, Laetitia Andrique, Céline Monvoisin, Gaëlle Recher, Christelle Dussert, Claire Lamaison, Marine Seffals, Microenvironment, Cell Differentiation, Immunology and Cancer (MICMAC), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Etablissement français du sang [Rennes] (EFS Bretagne), University of Toronto, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences (LP2N), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Actions for OnCogenesis understanding and Target Identification in ONcology (ACTION), Institut Bergonié [Bordeaux], UNICANCER-UNICANCER-Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Bordeaux (UB), Université de Rennes (UR), Institut Curie [Paris], Plateforme de sequencage ICGEX, Bordeaux Research In Translational Oncology [Bordeaux] (BaRITOn), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), UNICANCER, CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux], This work was supported by INSERM, University of Bordeaux, Ligue Régionalecontre le Cancer (comités de Gironde, Charentes, Pyrénées, Landes), the FondationARC pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (Grant PGA1 RF20170205386), the InstitutNational du cancer (INCA AAP PNP-19-009), Emergence GSO Cancéropole, andSIRIC BRIO. S.L. is supported by Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer and C.L. is arecipient of a doctoral fellowship from the FHU CAMIn and LBB (Léa Broca-Brisson)of a master fellowship from CNRS GDR Imabio. J.S.V. is funded by the InfrastructureeCellFrance (ANR-11-INBS-005). The 3D capsules were obtained from the VoxCellOrganoïds Plateform, a service of the CNRS-INSERM and Bordeaux University -UMS TBMCore 3427. We thank Stéphanie Durand-Panteix for her technical supportwith transduction experiments. We thank Atika Zouine and Vincent Pitard fortechnical assistance at the Flow cytometry facility, CNRS UMS 3427, INSERM US005, Univ. Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France. We acknowledge the BordeauxImaging Center, a service unit of the CNRS-INSERM and Bordeaux University,member of the national infrastructure France BioImaging supported by the FrenchResearch Agency (ANR-10-INBS-04). Cell sorting was performed at the Biosit FlowCytometry and Cell Sorting Facility CytomeTRI (UMS 6480 Biosit, Rennes, France).High-throughput sequencing has been performed by the ICGex NGS platform of theInstitut Curie supported by the grants ANR-10-EQPX-03 (Equipex) and ANR-10-INBS-09-08 (France Génomique Consortium) from the ANR, by the ITMO-CANCER,and by the SiRIC-Curie program (SiRIC Grant INCa-DGOS-4654)., The authors are indebted to the Centre de Ressources Biologiques (CRB)-Santé (BB-0033-00056) of Rennes hospital for the processing of biological samples., ANR-11-INBS-0005,ECELLFRANCE,Développement d'une Plateforme Nationale pour la médecine régénératrice(2011), ANR-10-INBS-0004,France-BioImaging,Développment d'une infrastructure française distribuée coordonnée(2010), ANR-10-EQPX-0003,ICGex,Equipement de biologie intégrative du cancer pour une médecine personnalisée(2010), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Plateforme de Séquençage ADN haut débit [Institut Curie] (NGS - ICGex), H2P2 - Histo Pathologie Hight Precision (H2P2), Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Université de Rennes 1 - Faculté de Médecine (UR1 Médecine), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2-Institut Bergonié [Bordeaux], UNICANCER-UNICANCER, Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Chard-Hutchinson, Xavier, Infrastructures - Développement d'une Plateforme Nationale pour la médecine régénératrice - - ECELLFRANCE2011 - ANR-11-INBS-0005 - INBS - VALID, Développment d'une infrastructure française distribuée coordonnée - - France-BioImaging2010 - ANR-10-INBS-0004 - INBS - VALID, and Equipements d'excellence - Equipement de biologie intégrative du cancer pour une médecine personnalisée - - ICGex2010 - ANR-10-EQPX-0003 - EQPX - VALID
Non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas (B-NHL) mainly develop within lymph nodes as aggregates of tumor cells densely packed with their surrounding microenvironment, creating a tumor niche specific to each lymphoma subtypes. In vitro preclinical models mimicking biomechanical forces, cellular microenvironment, and 3D organization of B-cell lymphomas remain scarce, while all these parameters are key determinants of lymphomagenesis and drug resistance. Using a microfluidic method based on cell encapsulation inside permeable, elastic, and hollow alginate microspheres, we developed a new tunable 3D model incorporating lymphoma B cells, extracellular matrix (ECM), and/or tonsil stromal cells (TSC). Under 3D confinement, lymphoma B cells were able to form cohesive spheroids resulting from overexpression of ECM components. Moreover, lymphoma B cells and TSC dynamically formed self-organized 3D spheroids favoring tumor cell growth. 3D culture induced resistance to the classical chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin, but not to the BCL2 inhibitor ABT-199, identifying this approach as a relevant in vitro model to assess the activity of therapeutic agents in B-NHL. RNA-sequence analysis highlighted the synergy of 3D, ECM, and TSC in upregulating similar pathways in malignant B cells in vitro than those overexpressed in primary lymphoma B cells in situ. Finally, our 3D model including ECM and TSC allowed long-term in vitro survival of primary follicular lymphoma B cells. In conclusion, we propose a new high-throughput 3D model mimicking lymphoma tumor niche and making it possible to study the dynamic relationship between lymphoma B cells and their microenvironment and to screen new anti-cancer drugs.