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Hypoxia controls the glycobiological signature and related pro-tumorigenic properties of metastatic melanomas

ABSTRACT: Metastatic melanoma (MM) has a five-year survival rate of only 37%. The major causes of MM-related mortality are distant organ involvement and treatment resistance. These metastatic activities are often potentiated by the persistence of tumor-initiating cells (TICs) thriving in areas of hypoxia. To enhance therapy success, it is, thus, critical to understand MM TIC properties and devise MM TIC-specific treatment strategies. Our recent data suggest that MM cells have a distinct MM glycome signature characterized by fetal i-linear poly-N-acetyllactosamines (poly-LacNAc) and loss of I-branching enzyme β1,6 N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 2 (GCNT2) that promote tumorigenicity. Whether hypoxia can instruct MM TIC development by modulating the MM glycome signature remains unknown. Here, comparative analysis of GCNT2 levels on patient melanoma cells and clinical outcome confirmed the relationship between loss of GCNT2 and poor patient survival. Moreover, MM cells with low GCNT2 showed elevated TIC marker expression and increased TIC potential, in vivo. Under hypoxia, MM cells further lost GCNT2 and I-branched poly-LacNAc expression and showed corresponding elevations in TIC markers and other glycome-related alterations. Galectin (Gal)-8, notably, was upregulated under hypoxia, preferred binding to i-linear poly-LacNAcs, increased TIC marker CD271, and was significantly elevated in sera of melanoma patients. Knockdown of Gal-8 in MM cells significantly decreased CD271 levels, even under hypoxia. Results from this investigation reveal a key role for hypoxia in enforcing the MM glycome signature and for Gal-8 as a pro-tumorigenic lectin and putative biomarker of MM.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE188986 | GEO | 2022/08/03

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Background: Large-scale genomic analyses of patient cohorts have revealed extensive heterogeneity between individual tumors, contributing to treatment failure and drug resistance. In malignant melanoma, heterogeneity is thought to arise as a consequence of the differentiation of melanoma-initiating cells that are defined by cell-surface markers like CD271 or CD133. Results: Here we identified the nerve growth factor receptor (CD271) as a crucial determinant of melanoma cell tumorigenicity, stem-like properties, heterogeneity and plasticity. Stable shRNA mediated knock-down of CD271 in patient-derived melanoma cells abrogated their tumor-initiating and colony-forming capacity. A genome-wide expression profiling and gene-set enrichment analysis revealed novel connections of CD271 with melanoma-associated genes like CD133 and points to a neural crest stem cell (NCSC) signature lost upon CD271 knock-down. In a meta-analysis, we found CD271 linked to the neural crest specifier SOX10 and observed a shared set of 271 differentially regulated genes. To dissect the connection of CD271 and CD133 we analyzed 10 patient-derived melanoma-cell lines for cell-surface expression of both markers compared to established cell lines MeWo and A375. We found CD271+ cells in the majority of cell lines analyzed as well as in a set of 16 different patient-derived melanoma metastases. Strikingly, only 2/12 cell lines harbored a CD133+ sub-set that in addition comprised a fraction of cells of a CD271+/CD133+ phenotype. Those cells were found in the label-retaining fraction and in vitro deduced from CD271+ but not CD271 knock-down cells. Conclusions: Our present study provides a deeper insight into the regulation of melanoma cell properties and points CD271 out as a regulator of several melanoma-associated genes. Further, our data strongly suggest CD271 is a crucial determinant of stem-like properties of melanoma cells like colony-formation and tumorigenicity. For knock-down of CD271 (NGFR), melanoma cells were transfected with 2 M-BM-5g of each shRNA plasmid; #2: 5M-bM-^@M-^Y-ACAACCTCATCCCTGTCTATT-3M-bM-^@M-^Y; #3: 5M-bM-^@M-^Y-CCCGAGCACATAGA CTCCTTT-3M-bM-^@M-^Y and #4: 5M-bM-^@M-^Y-CCGAGCACATAGACTCCTTTA-3M-bM-^@M-^Y or control shRNA (shCtl 5M-bM-^@M-^Y-GGAATCTCATTCGATGCATAC-3M-bM-^@M-^Y; all from Quiagen) using Lipofectamine2000 (Invitrogen). Cells were selected with puromycin (10M-BM-5g/ ml) over a period of two weeks. Whole genome expression profiling of CD271k.d. cells (shRNA#4) and shCtl. cells was performed with three biological replicates. Illumina raw data of BeadChip HumanHT-12V4 platform were summarized via the BeadStudio without normalization and background correction. Follow-up processing was done via the R/Bioconductor environment employing packages lumi, limma and q-value. Data were normalized with quantile normalization. Genes were termed significantly differentially expressed when the average detection p-value of at least one case was < 0.05 the ratio was outside the interval [0.75,1.33], one of the p-values from limma test, Student's t-test, Welch test and Wilcoxon test was < 0.05. At least one of the q-values corresponding to one of these tests < 0.05.

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