期刊
ONCOTARGET
卷 6, 期 41, 页码 43964-43977出版社
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6268
关键词
irradiation; cancer stem cells; EMT; apoptosis; invasion
资金
- National Centre for the Replacement
- Bans and The London Charity
- Fanconi Anemia Research Foundation
- National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) [NC/K500495/1, G0900799/1, NC/L00061X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
There is a significant amount of evidence to suggest that human tumors are driven and maintained by a sub-population of cells, known as cancer stem cells (CSC). In the case of head and neck cancer, such cells have been characterised by high expression levels of CD44 cell surface glycoprotein, while we have previously shown the presence of two diverse oral CSC populations in vitro, with different capacities for cell migration and proliferation. Here, we examined the response of oral CSC populations to ionising radiation (IR), a front-line measure for the treatment of head and neck tumors. We show that oral CSC initially display resistance to IR-induced growth arrest as well as relative apoptotic resistance. We propose that this is a result of preferential activation of the DNA damagerepair pathway in oral CSC with increased activation of ATM and BRCA1, elevated levels of DNA repair proteins RAD52, XLF, and a significantly faster rate of DNA double-strand-breaks clearance 24 hours following IR. By visually identifying CSC sub-populations undergoing EMT, we show that EMT-CSC represent the majority of invasive cells, and are more radio-resistant than any other population in re-constructed 3D tissues. We provide evidence that IR is not sufficient to eliminate CSC in vitro, and that sensitization of CD44h1/ESAkwi cells to IR, followed by secondary EMT blockade,could be critical in order to reduce primary tumor recurrence, but more importantly to be able to eradicate cells capable of invasion and distant metastasis.
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