Project description:Recent studies have shown that non-enzymatic function of CD73 play a key role in tumor progression, but this function of CD73 in pancreatic cancer cells has not been studied. In the present study, PANC-1 cell lines were transfected with CD73 siRNA, and proliferation ability and cell cycle was significantly inhibited. However, little is known about the mechanisms involved in CD73 regulation in tumors.
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.
Project description:The proteome profiles of RNF223 knockdown and control pancreatic cancer cell lines were compared employing data independent acquisition(DIA) technology
Project description:Background: Identification and purification of cancer stem cells (CSCs) lead to new therapeutic targets; however, there has been no study to identify and isolated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET) CSC. Therefore the clinical significance and its target remain unknown. This study aimed to identify pNET CSCs and characterize therapeutic candidate for pNET CSCs. Methods: We isolated CSCs sorting by ALDH activity in pNET surgical section and cell lines. We verified whether these cells have the property of stemness in vivo and in vitro. Additionally in order to acquire CSC gene profile, genome-wide gene expression profiles were investigated using a microarray technique. Results: ALDHhigh cells, but not control bulk cells, formed spheres, proliferated in hypoxia as well as normoxia and promoted cell motility, which are features of CSCs. Injection of as few as 10 ALDHhigh cells led to subcutaneous tumor formation, and 105 ALDHhigh cells established metastases but not control bulk cells in mice. Comprehensive gene expression analysis revealed that genes associated with mesenchymal stem cell, including CD73, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) were overexpressed in ALDHhigh cells. APCP, which is CD73 inhibitor, inhibited sphere formation and cell motility in ALDHhigh cells in vitro, and tumor growth inhibition were observed in ALDHhigh cells in vivo. Conclusions: We identified ALDHhigh cells of pNET and elucidated that they have stemness property. Furthermore we identified CD73 as a target of ALDHhigh cells. CD73 is a promising novel target of pNET CSCs.
Project description:We performed RNA-seq to evaluated the transcriptional changes of CD73 knockdown in RD cells, a Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma cell line. We used a Dox-inducible shRNA targetting the 3'UTR of CD73 to knockdown this gene. Cells with No-Dox were used as control.
Project description:Gene expression profiling of pancreatic cancer cell PANC-1 and SW1990 when LINC00842 knockdown by CRISPR/Cas9 system. We identified LINC00842 is a novel prognosis related lincRNA in pancreatic cancer and its regulation networks is poorly understood. We used the total RNA from knockdown control and LINC00842-knockdown PANC-1 and SW1990 cells to analyze the differentially expressed genes which were regulated by LINC00842, and further explored the biological processes that LINC00842 may involved.
Project description:MSCs are a heterogeneous population and the specific population of MSCs may exhibit a selective ability for tissue repair. The aim of our research was to adapt the CD73+ subgroup of adipose derived MSCs (AD-MSCs) for the therapy of myocardial infarction (MI). Our results revealed that CD73+ AD-MSCs played more effective role in the acceleration function of cardiac recovery by promoting angiogenesis in a rat model of MI compared to mixed AD-MSCs and CD73- AD-MSCs. Microarray analysis shows differences between CD73+ and CD73- AD-MSCs when transcription profile of these two subgroups were compared, especially in VEGF pathway.
Project description:RNAi mediated depletion of TCF7L1 increases activity of a Wnt-based reporter and imparts more aggressive tumor phenotypes in vitro in pancreatic cancer cell lines that express TCF7L1. We sought to determine what changes in transcription ocurred after RNAi mediated knockdown of TCF7L1 in these cells by RNA-sequencing