Fractionated irradiation of breast cancer cells rewires a gene regulatory circuit towards a treatment-resistant stemness phenotype
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PROVIDER: GSE189495 | GEO | 2022/10/12
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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2016-07-07 | E-GEOD-84109 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2014-07-01 | E-GEOD-56824 | biostudies-arrayexpress
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2021-08-13 | PXD027572 | Pride
Project description:Radiotherapy is one of the most common therapies for cancer. Approximately half of all cancer patients will receive radiotherapy at some point during treatment. Consequences of IR treatment are dose dependent and different sensitivity to IR of various types of cells is well established. To reduce the damage of IR to most sensitive cells of normal (noncancerous) tissue radiotherapy is administered as fractionated dose treatment applying radiation in ~2 Gy fractions every 24 hours, 5 times per week. However, during the therapy intrinsic and acquired tumor radioresistance may result in treatment failures. Comprehensive mechanisms of the resistance to irradiation as well as mechanisms of cellular response to fractionated dose IR remain unclear. Therefore, in the present study we evaluated global gene expression changes in murine Lewis lung carcinoma LLC1 cells following X-ray irradiation of single 2 Gy or 10 Gy and 2 Gy x 5 fractionated doses.
2016-07-07 | GSE84108 | GEO
Project description:The molecular mechanisms underlying exceptional radioresistance in pancreatic cancer remain elusive. In the present study, we established a stable radioresistant pancreatic cancer cell line MIA PaCa-2-R by exposing the parental MIA PaCa-2 cells to fractionated ionizing radiation (IR). Systematic proteomics and bioinformatics comparison of protein expression in MIA PaCa-2 and MIA PaCa-2-R cells revealed that several growth factor- and cytokine-mediated pathways, including the OSM/STAT3, PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK pathways, were activated in the radioresistant cells, leading to enhanced cell migration, invasion and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and inhibition of apoptosis. We focused functional analysis on one of the most upregulated proteins in the radioresistant cells, CD73, which is a cell surface protein that is overexpressed in a variety types of cancer. Ectopic overexpression of CD73 in the parent cells resulted in radioresistance and conferred resistance to IR-induced apoptosis. Knockdown of CD73 resensitized the radioresistant cells to IR and IR-induced apoptosis. The effect of CD73 on radioresistance and apoptosis is independent of the enzymatic activity of CD73. Further studies suggest that CD73 confers acquired radioresistance in pancreatic cancer cells at least in part through inactivating proapoptotic protein BAD via phosphorylation of BAD at Ser-136. Furthermore, we found that knockdown of CD73 in the radioresistant cells alone reverted the gene expression and phenotype of the radioresistant cells from those of mesenchymal-like cells to the ones of epithelial cells, demonstrating that CD73 upregulation is required for maintaining EMT in the radioresistant cells. Our results support the notion that the enhanced growth factor/cytokine signaling that promotes epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity, and acquisition of cancer stem-like cell properties contributes to acquired radioresistance in the residual surviving cells after fractionated irradiation, and that CD73 is a novel downstream factor of those enhanced signaling and acts to confers acquired radioresistance and maintains EMT in the radioresistant pancreatic cancer cells.
2019-12-31 | PXD012922 | Pride