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Circadian properties of cancer stem cells in glioma cell cultures and tumorspheres
Ist Teil von
Cancer letters, 2014-04, Vol.345 (1), p.65-74
Ort / Verlag
Ireland: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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ScienceDirect
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Abstract Increased cancer risk is linked to disruption of circadian rhythms. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a known cause of cancer aggressiveness, but their circadian properties have not been described. We discovered circadian rhythms in gene expression within C6 glioma tumorspheres enriched in CSCs and found that the circadian clock is particularly robust in medium lacking any growth factors. A method is introduced for identifying individual CSCs in culture for single-cell analysis. CSCs in monolayer cell culture failed to show a circadian rhythm in nuclear localization of mPER2 protein, suggesting that cell interactions or the tumor-like microenvironment within tumorspheres enable circadian timing.