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Polyamine-stimulation of arsenic-transformed keratinocytes.

ABSTRACT: Tumor promotion is strongly associated with inflammation and increased polyamine levels. Our understanding of relevant mechanisms responsible for arsenic-induced cancer remains limited. Previous studies suggest that arsenic targets and dysregulates stem cell populations that remain dormant in the skin until promoted to be recruited out of the bulge stem cell region, thus giving rise to skin tumors. In this study, we explored a possible mechanism by which increased keratinocyte polyamine biosynthesis promotes tumorsphere formation and invasiveness of arsenic-transformed HaCaT keratinocytes (As-HaCaT). Unlike parental HaCaT cells, As-HaCaT cells were tumorigenic in athymic nude mice, and the CD45negative epithelial tumor cells had enriched expression of Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4), CD34 and CXCR4 as did As-HaCaT tumorsphere cultures compared to As-HaCaT monolayer cultures. Ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) overexpressing keratinocytes (Ker/ODC) release increased levels of the alarmin high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1). Ker/ODC conditioned medium (CM) stimulated As-HaCaT but not parental HaCaT tumorsphere formation, and this was inhibited by glycyrrhizin, an inhibitor of HMGB1, and by TAK242, an inhibitor of the HMGB1 receptor TLR4. Compared to parental HaCaT cells, As-HaCaT cells demonstrated greater invasiveness across a Matrigel-coated filter using either fibroblast CM or SDF-1? as chemoattractants. Addition of Ker/ODC CM or HMGB1 dramatically increased As-HaCaT invasiveness. Glycyrrhizin and TAK242 inhibited this Ker/ODC CM-stimulated invasion of As-HaCaT cells but not HaCaT cells. These results show that polyamine-dependent release of HMGB1 promotes the expansion of stem cell-like subpopulations in arsenic-transformed keratinocytes while also increasing their invasiveness, suggesting that polyamines may be a potential therapeutic target for the prevention and treatment of arsenic-initiated skin cancers.

SUBMITTER: Alexander ET

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6735862 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Polyamine-stimulation of arsenic-transformed keratinocytes.

Alexander Eric T ET Mariner Kelsey K Borodyanskaya Yelizaveta Y Minton Allyson A Gilmour Susan K SK

Carcinogenesis 20190801 8

Tumor promotion is strongly associated with inflammation and increased polyamine levels. Our understanding of relevant mechanisms responsible for arsenic-induced cancer remains limited. Previous studies suggest that arsenic targets and dysregulates stem cell populations that remain dormant in the skin until promoted to be recruited out of the bulge stem cell region, thus giving rise to skin tumors. In this study, we explored a possible mechanism by which increased keratinocyte polyamine biosynth ...[more]

PMID: 31190067

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Project description:BackgroundCancer stem cells (CSCs) are likely critical to carcinogenesis, and, like normal stem cells (NSCs), are affected by microenvironmental factors. Malignant cells release extracellular factors, modifying tumor behavior. Inorganic arsenic, a human carcinogen, is associated with an overproduction of CSCs in various model systems of carcinogenesis.ObjectiveWe aimed to determine if NSCs are influenced by nearby arsenic-transformed malignant epithelial cells (MECs) as a possible factor in arsenic-associated CSC overabundance.MethodsTranswell noncontact co-culture allowed the study of the effects of non-contiguous, arsenic-transformed prostate MECs on the isogenic human prostate NSC line, WPE-stem. Cancer phenotype was assessed by evaluating secreted matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), invasiveness, colony formation, and spheroid formation. Gene expression was assessed at the protein (Western blot) or mRNA (real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) levels.ResultsNoncontact co-culture of MECs and NSCs rapidly (? 3 weeks) caused hypersecretion of MMPs and marked suppression of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN in NSCs. NSCs co-cultured with MECs also showed increased invasiveness and clonogenicity and formed more free-floating spheroids and highly branched ductal-like structures in Matrigel, all typical for CSCs. MEC co-culture caused dysregulated self-renewal and differentiation-related gene expression patterns and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in NSCs consistent with an acquired cancer phenotype. Interleukin-6 (IL-6), a cytokine involved in tumor microenvironment control, was hypersecreted by MECs, and IL-6 exposure of NSCs resulted in the duplication of several responses in NSCs of conversion to CSCs via MEC co-culture (e.g., MMP hypersecretion, decreased PTEN).ConclusionsArsenic-transformed MECs recruit nearby NSCs into a cancer phenotype, thereby potentially increasing CSC number. This may be a factor in arsenic-induced CSC overabundance seen in multiple model systems.

Project description:IntroductionArsenic is a widely distributed environmental toxicant that can cause multi-tissue pathologies. Proteomic assays allow for the identification of biological processes modulated by arsenic in diverse tissue types.MethodThe altered abundance of proteins from HaCaT human keratinocyte cell line exposed to arsenic was quantified using a label-free LC-MS/MS mass spectrometry workflow. Selected proteomics results were validated using western blot and RT-PCR. A functional annotation analytics strategy that included visual analytical integration of heterogeneous data sets was developed to elucidate functional categories. The annotations integrated were mainly tissue localization, biological process and gene family.ResultThe abundance of 173 proteins was altered in keratinocytes exposed to arsenic; in which 96 proteins had increased abundance while 77 proteins had decreased abundance. These proteins were also classified into 69 Gene Ontology biological process terms. The increased abundance of transferrin receptor protein (TFRC) was validated and also annotated to participate in response to hypoxia. A total of 33 proteins (11 increased abundance and 22 decreased abundance) were associated with 18 metabolic process terms. The Glutamate--cysteine ligase catalytic subunit (GCLC), the only protein annotated with the term sulfur amino acid metabolism process, had increased abundance while succinate dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] iron-sulfur subunit, mitochondrial precursor (SDHB), a tumor suppressor, had decreased abundance.ConclusionA list of 173 differentially abundant proteins in response to arsenic trioxide was grouped using three major functional annotations covering tissue localization, biological process and protein families. A possible explanation for hyperpigmentation pathologies observed in arsenic toxicity is that arsenic exposure leads to increased iron uptake in the normally hypoxic human skin. The proteins mapped to metabolic process terms and differentially abundant are candidates for evaluating metabolic pathways perturbed by arsenicals.

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