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Characterization of epithelial-mesenchymal transition intermediate/hybrid phenotypes associated to resistance to EGFR inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines.

ABSTRACT: Increasing evidence points to a key role played by epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in cancer progression and drug resistance. In this study, we used wet and in silico approaches to investigate whether EMT phenotypes are associated to resistance to target therapy in a non-small cell lung cancer model system harboring activating mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor. The combination of different analysis techniques allowed us to describe intermediate/hybrid and complete EMT phenotypes respectively in HCC827- and HCC4006-derived drug-resistant human cancer cell lines. Interestingly, intermediate/hybrid EMT phenotypes, a collective cell migration and increased stem-like ability associate to resistance to the epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor, erlotinib, in HCC827 derived cell lines. Moreover, the use of three complementary approaches for gene expression analysis supported the identification of a small EMT-related gene list, which may have otherwise been overlooked by standard stand-alone methods for gene expression analysis.

SUBMITTER: Fustaino V

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5732732 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Characterization of epithelial-mesenchymal transition intermediate/hybrid phenotypes associated to resistance to EGFR inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines.

Fustaino Valentina V Presutti Dario D Colombo Teresa T Cardinali Beatrice B Papoff Giuliana G Brandi Rossella R Bertolazzi Paola P Felici Giovanni G Ruberti Giovina G

Oncotarget 20170922 61

Increasing evidence points to a key role played by epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in cancer progression and drug resistance. In this study, we used <i>wet</i> and <i>in silico</i> approaches to investigate whether EMT phenotypes are associated to resistance to target therapy in a non-small cell lung cancer model system harboring activating mutations of the epidermal growth factor receptor. The combination of different analysis techniques allowed us to describe intermediate/hybrid and co ...[more]

PMID: 29262566

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Project description:Mitochondrial dysfunction promotes cancer aggressiveness, metastasis, and resistance to therapy. Similar traits are associated with epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT). We questioned whether mitochondrial dysfunction induces EMT in head and neck cancer (HNC) cell lines. We induced mitochondrial dysfunction in four HNC cell lines with carbonyl cyanide-4(trifluoromethoxy)phenylhydrazone (FCCP), a mitochondrial electron transport chain uncoupling agent, and oligomycin, a mitochondrial ATP synthase inhibitor. Extracellular flux analyses and expression of the cystine/glutamate antiporter system xc (xCT) served to confirm mitochondrial dysfunction. Expression of the EMT-related transcription factor SNAI2, the mesenchymal marker vimentin and vimentin/cytokeratin double positivity served to detect EMT. In addition, holotomographic microscopy was used to search for morphological features of EMT. Extracellular flux analysis and xCT expression confirmed that FCCP/oligomycin induced mitochondrial dysfunction in all cell lines. Across the four cell lines, mitochondrial dysfunction resulted in an increase in relative SNAI2 expression from 8.5 ± 0.8 to 12.0 ± 1.1 (mean ± SEM; p = 0.007). This effect was predominantly caused by the CAL 27 cell line (increase from 2.2 ± 0.4 to 5.5 ± 1.0; p < 0.001). Similarly, only in CAL 27 cells vimentin expression increased from 2.2 ± 0.5 × 10-3 to 33.2 ± 10.2 × 10-3 (p = 0.002) and vimentin/cytokeratin double positive cells increased from 34.7 ± 5.1 to 67.5 ± 9.8% (p = 0.003), while the other 3 cell lines did not respond with EMT (all p > 0.1). Across all cell lines, FCCP/oligomycin had no effect on EMT characteristics in holotomographic microscopy. Mitochondrial dysfunction induced EMT in 1 of 4 HNC cell lines. Given the heterogeneity of HNC, mitochondrial dysfunction may be sporadically induced by EMT, but EMT does not explain the tumor promoting effects of mitochondrial dysfunction in general.

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Characterization of epithelial-mesenchymal transition intermediate/hybrid phenotypes associated to resistance to EGFR inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines.

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Characterization of epithelial-mesenchymal transition intermediate/hybrid phenotypes associated to resistance to EGFR inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines.

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