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Szeliga M, Albrecht J. Roles of nitric oxide and polyamines in brain tumor growth. Adv Med Sci 2021; 66:199-205. [PMID: 33711670 DOI: 10.1016/j.advms.2021.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2020] [Revised: 02/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Nitric oxide (NO) and polyamines: putrescine, spermidine and spermine, are key arginine metabolites in mammalian tissues that play critical roles i.a. in regulation of vascular tone (NO), and cell cycle regulation (polyamines). In the brain, both classes of molecules additionally have neuromodulatory and neuroprotective potential, and NO also a neurotoxic potential. Here we review evidence that brain tumors use the NO- and polyamine-synthesizing machineries to the benefit of their differentiation and growth from healthy glia and neurons. With a few exceptions, brain tumors show increased activities of one or all of the three arginine (Arg) to NO-converting nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms (iNOS, eNOS, nNOS), but also elevated activities of polyamines-generating and modifying enzymes: arginase I/II, ornithine decarboxylase and spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase. The degree of stimulation of NO- and polyamine synthesis often correlates with brain tumor malignancy. Excess NO, but also spermine, spermidine and their N1-acetylated forms, are tumor- and context-dependently involved in angiogenesis, tumor initiation and growth, and resistance to chemo- or radiotherapy. Hypothetically, increased demand for NO and/or polyamines is likely to contribute to Arg auxotrophy of malignant brain tumors, albeit the causal nexus awaits experimental verification.
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Jensen SS, Petterson SA, Halle B, Aaberg-Jessen C, Kristensen BW. Effects of the lysosomal destabilizing drug siramesine on glioblastoma in vitro and in vivo. BMC Cancer 2017; 17:178. [PMID: 28270132 PMCID: PMC5341392 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-017-3162-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2016] [Accepted: 03/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Glioblastoma is the most frequent and most malignant brain tumor with the patients having a median survival of only 14.6 months. Although glioblastoma patients are treated with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy recurrence is inevitable. A stem-like population of radio- and chemoresistant brain tumor-initiating cells combined with the invasive properties of the tumors is believed to be critical for treatment resistance. In the present study, the aim was to investigate the effect of a novel therapeutic strategy using the lysosomotropic detergent siramesine on glioblastomas. Methods Standard glioma cell lines and patient-derived spheroids cultures with tumor-initiating stem-like cells were used to investigate effects of siramesine on proliferation and cell death. Responsible mechanisms were investigated by inhibitors of caspases and cathepsins. Effects of siramesine on migrating tumor cells were investigated by a flat surface migration assay and by implanting spheroids into organotypic rat brain slice cultures followed by confocal time-lapse imaging. Finally the effect of siramesine was investigated in an orthotopic mouse glioblastoma model. Results obtained in vitro and in vivo were confirmed by immunohistochemical staining of histological sections of spheroids, spheroids in brain slice cultures and tumors in mice brains. Results The results showed that siramesine killed standard glioma cell lines in vitro, and loss of acridine orange staining suggested a compromised lysosomal membrane. Co-treatment of the cell lines with inhibitors of caspases and cathepsins suggested differential involvement in cell death. Siramesine caused tumor cell death and reduced secondary spheroid formation of patient-derived spheroid cultures. In the flat surface migration model siramesine caused tumor cell death and inhibited tumor cell migration. This could not be reproduced in the organotypic three dimensional spheroid-brain slice culture model or in the mice xenograft model. Conclusions In conclusion the in vitro results obtained with tumor cells and spheroids suggest a potential of lysosomal destabilizing drugs in killing glioblastoma cells, but siramesine was without effect in the organotypic spheroid-brain slice culture model and the in vivo xenograft model. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12885-017-3162-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Stine S Jensen
- Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Winsløwparken 15, 3. floor, 5000, Odense C, Denmark.,Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Winsløwparken 19.3, 5000, Odense C, Denmark
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- Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Winsløwparken 15, 3. floor, 5000, Odense C, Denmark.,Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Winsløwparken 19.3, 5000, Odense C, Denmark
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- Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Winsløwparken 15, 3. floor, 5000, Odense C, Denmark.,Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Winsløwparken 19.3, 5000, Odense C, Denmark.,Department of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, 5000, Odense C, Denmark
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- Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Winsløwparken 15, 3. floor, 5000, Odense C, Denmark.,Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Winsløwparken 19.3, 5000, Odense C, Denmark
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- Department of Pathology, Odense University Hospital, Winsløwparken 15, 3. floor, 5000, Odense C, Denmark. .,Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Winsløwparken 19.3, 5000, Odense C, Denmark.
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Combination treatment of TRAIL, DFMO and radiation for malignant glioma cells. J Neurooncol 2015; 123:217-24. [PMID: 25935110 DOI: 10.1007/s11060-015-1799-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2014] [Accepted: 04/20/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) has shown potent and cancer-selective killing activity and drawn considerable attention as a promising therapy for cancer. Another promising cancer therapy is difluoromethylornithine (DFMO), an inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase, which is oraly administered and well tolerated. Nevertheless, many types of cancer, including gliomas, have exhibited resistance to TRAIL-induced apoptosis and similarly the potency of DFMO should be enhanced to optimize therapeutic efficacy. In this study we sought to determine whether DFMO, in combination with TRAIL and radiation, could result in an enhanced anti-glioma effect in vitro. We investigated the effect of DFMO, TRAIL and radiation in various combinations on a panel of glioblastoma cell lines (A172, T98G, D54, U251MG). Viability and proliferation of the cells were examined with trypan blue exclusion assay, crystal violet and xCELLigence system. Apoptosis (Annexin-PI), cell cycle and activation of caspase-8 were tested with flow cytometry. BAD protein levels were determined by Western blot analysis. DFMO induced BAD overexpression. Combination treatment with DFMO, TRAIL and radiation significantly reduced cell viability in all cell lines tested. Increased induction of cell death and cell cycle arrest was confirmed with flow cytometry in A172 and D54 cell lines, while enhanced activation of annexin and caspase-8 was revealed in U251MG and T98G cells. The treatment of glioblastoma cell lines with combination of DFMO, TRAIL and radiation showed an enhanced effect. This combination treatment may represent a novel strategy for targeting glioblastoma.
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Gliemroth J, Feyerabend T, Gerlach C, Arnold H, Terzis AJA. Proliferation, migration, and invasion of human glioma cells exposed to fractionated radiotherapy in vitro. Neurosurg Rev 2003; 26:198-205. [PMID: 12845549 DOI: 10.1007/s10143-003-0253-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2002] [Revised: 01/03/2003] [Accepted: 01/06/2003] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Radiotherapy is a well established treatment for malignant gliomas. This study describes the migration, proliferation, and invasion behaviour of two human glioma cell lines (GaMg and U-87 Mg) grown as multicellular tumour spheroids after radiotherapy. Migration and proliferation studies were performed using conventional and accelerated fractionation up to 60 Gy and 59.4 Gy, respectively. A dose-dependent growth and migratory response to irradiation independent of the type of fractionation was observed. A coculture system in which tumour spheroids were confronted with foetal rat brain aggregates was used for invasion studies. Marked invasion of the glioma spheroids into the brain aggregates occurred with or without radiotherapy. For the GaMg cells, flow cytometric DNA histograms after treatment with 10 Gy and 40 Gy showed an accumulation of cells in the G2/M phase of the cell cycle. Radiotherapy inhibits tumour cell growth and migration, but the invasiveness of the remaining tumour cells seems to be unaffected.
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- Jan Gliemroth
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany.
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Günther W, Pawlak E, Damasceno R, Arnold H, Terzis AJ. Temozolomide induces apoptosis and senescence in glioma cells cultured as multicellular spheroids. Br J Cancer 2003; 88:463-9. [PMID: 12569392 PMCID: PMC2747547 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Temozolomide is an alkylating cytostatic drug that finds increasing application in the treatment of melanoma, anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma multiforme. The compound is a prodrug that decomposes spontaneously, independent of an enzymatic activation step. DNA methylation induces futile mismatch repair cycles and depletion of the DNA repair enzyme O(6)-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase should then initiate programmed cell death. We show drug-dependent inhibition of tumour growth in a three-dimensional cell culture model of the glioma cell lines U87MG and GaMG. Migrational behaviour of the glioblastoma cells remained unaltered. However, coincubation of tumour spheroids with primary brain aggregates showed reduced tumour cell invasion into brain tissue in the presence of temozolomide. This was not achieved by slowing cellular migration, as temozolomide-treated cells displayed no reduced motility. By transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labelling (TUNEL) of apoptotic nuclei, we found that the drug was able to induce apoptosis throughout the tumour cell spheroids. Apoptosis was highest in the core region of the spheroids. Repetitive application of sublethal doses of temozolomide to multicellular spheroids resulted in the development of drug resistance in GaMG cells. We suggest that temozolomide is a strong initiator of apoptosis in glioblastoma tumour cells in a spheroid cell culture system, when cells are already in a stressful environment.
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- W Günther
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Lübeck, Germany.
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Recent research using multicellular tumor spheroids has resulted in new insights in the regulation of invasion and metastasis, angiogenesis and cell cycle kinetics. The onset and expansion of central necrosis in tumor spheroids has been characterized to be a complex interaction of several mechanisms; in a number of cases, necrosis is not a consequence of hypoxia or anoxia, but emerges as secondary necrosis following an accumulation of apoptosis in spheroids. Recent therapeutically oriented studies have been directed towards novel hypoxic markers, targeted therapy, multicellular-mediated drug resistance, and heavy ion irradiation of spheroids. Research efforts should be enhanced mainly in the fields of tumor tissue modeling by heterotypic three-dimensional (3D) cultures and of apoptotic versus necrotic cell death. Based on the fundamental differences between monolayer and 3D cultures, spheroids should become mandatory test systems in therapeutic screening programs.
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- W Mueller-Klieser
- Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Duesbergweg 6, 55099, Mainz, Germany.
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