A murine colon cancer cell line Colon26 (aka CT26) [23 (link),67 (link)] and a murine calvaria-derived osteoblastic cell line MC3T3-E1 [68 (link)] were obtained from Cell Bank at RIKEN BioResource Research Center (Tsukuba, Japan). A rapidly metastatic subline, LuM1, was generated from Colon26 as described previously [23 (link),35 (link),36 (link),42 (link),43 (link)]. MMP3-knockout LuM1 (MMP3-KO) cells were generated using the genome-editing method as described below. A murine macrophage-like cell line RAW-D (a subline of RAW264.7) was kindly provided by Prof. Toshio Kukita (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) [69 (link)]. Colon26, LuM1, MMP3-KO LuM1, and MC3T3-E1 were maintained in RPMI1640 with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and penicillin, streptomycin, and amphotericin B. RAW-D cells were cultured in minimum essential medium (MEM; Wako Pure Chemicals, Osaka, Japan) containing 10% FBS, supplemented with penicillin (100 U/mL) and streptomycin (100 mg/mL).
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