Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.), 2010-12, Vol.70 (23), p.9937-9948
2010
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Activity Selects for Lung Adenocarcinoma Stem Cells Dependent on Notch Signaling
- Ist Teil von
- Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.), 2010-12, Vol.70 (23), p.9937-9948
- Ort / Verlag
- Philadelphia, PA: American Association for Cancer Research
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
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- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) is a candidate marker for lung cancer cells with stem cell-like properties. Immunohistochemical staining of a large panel of primary non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) samples for ALDH1A1, ALDH3A1, and CD133 revealed a significant correlation between ALDH1A1 (but not ALDH3A1 or CD133) expression and poor prognosis in patients including those with stage I and N0 disease. Flow cytometric analysis of a panel of lung cancer cell lines and patient tumors revealed that most NSCLCs contain a subpopulation of cells with elevated ALDH activity, and that this activity is associated with ALDH1A1 expression. Isolated ALDH(+) lung cancer cells were observed to be highly tumorigenic and clonogenic as well as capable of self-renewal compared with their ALDH(-) counterparts. Expression analysis of sorted cells revealed elevated Notch pathway transcript expression in ALDH(+) cells. Suppression of the Notch pathway by treatment with either a γ-secretase inhibitor or stable expression of shRNA against NOTCH3 resulted in a significant decrease in ALDH(+) lung cancer cells, commensurate with a reduction in tumor cell proliferation and clonogenicity. Taken together, these findings indicate that ALDH selects for a subpopulation of self-renewing NSCLC stem-like cells with increased tumorigenic potential, that NSCLCs harboring tumor cells with ALDH1A1 expression have inferior prognosis, and that ALDH1A1 and CD133 identify different tumor subpopulations. Therapeutic targeting of the Notch pathway reduces this ALDH(+) component, implicating Notch signaling in lung cancer stem cell maintenance.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0008-5472eISSN: 1538-7445DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-10-0881Titel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3058307
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- Schlagworte
- Adenocarcinoma - genetics, Adenocarcinoma - metabolism, Adenocarcinoma - pathology, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase - genetics, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase - metabolism, Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 1 Family, Animals, Antineoplastic agents, Biological and medical sciences, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - genetics, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - metabolism, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung - pathology, Cell Proliferation, Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Lung Neoplasms - genetics, Lung Neoplasms - metabolism, Lung Neoplasms - pathology, Medical sciences, Mice, Mice, Inbred NOD, Mice, Knockout, Mice, SCID, Mice, Transgenic, Neoplasms, Experimental - genetics, Neoplasms, Experimental - metabolism, Neoplasms, Experimental - pathology, Neoplastic Stem Cells - metabolism, Neoplastic Stem Cells - pathology, Pharmacology. Drug treatments, Pneumology, Prognosis, Receptor, Notch3, Receptors, Notch - genetics, Receptors, Notch - metabolism, Retinal Dehydrogenase, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA Interference, Signal Transduction, Tissue Array Analysis, Transplantation, Heterologous, Tumors, Tumors of the respiratory system and mediastinum